"Highland Park City Council Candidates discuss economy, environment at candidate forum" Chicago Tribune

my three-point plan for Highland Park’s post-pandemic economic recovery:

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“The city has done a lot of things ... but I believe we have to do a lot more and do it in an accelerated manner,” Tapia said. ... “I have a three-point plan for that: sit down with landlords and current business owners about ways they can invest to make their establishments and downtown more attractive; two, address the real or imagined complaint that Highland Park is too expensive and too complex to do business in; and three, change our economic model of transactional retail to experiential retail.”