Our View: City needs Futures

“Downtown is dying.”

Those aren’t our words, but the words of a businessman who operated on Flaming Gorge Way, Green River’s main street, and left it. It isn’t hard to see why someone would come to that conclusion, with vacant storefronts and little business traffic. Many of the shop owners still there agree business is hard because people don’t often stop along Flaming Gorge Way. It isn’t just business owners noticing it either. While campaigning for his city council seat, Councilman Ted Barney spoke about wanting to focus on economic development because he noticed then how b...