Editor’s Notebook: Saving downtown Greeley

Leaders must make it easy for businesses, shoppers to come

What’s wrong with downtown Greeley?

That’s the question many civic leaders are asking in the wake of several recent setbacks for the area’s economic revitalization, including the closure of Fleetside Pub & Brewing and the loss of several downtown merchants. Other setbacks almost inevitably will come in the months ahead, possibly from car dealerships looking to relocate to the more-modern west side. One such, Garnsey & Wheeler Ford, already has made that decision.

Civic leaders were concerned enough several months ago to hire Fort Collins downtown guru Chip Steiner to study the problem.…