THE BROWNSVILLE NINE TO HELP RESHAPE DOWNTOWN BROWNSVILLE

 

Levee Street, Downtown Brownsville

When you're alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go - downtown.
When you've got worries all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help I know downtown.

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there
You can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares
So go downtown
Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure downtown
Everything's waiting for you.

"Downtown" by Petula Clark

"Downtown is going to be completely different in the next 24 months," stated Josh Mejia, Executive Director of the Brownsville Community Development Corporation.

The BCIC has doled out $2 million of the $10 million bequeathed to the City of Brownsville by Elon Musk, using it for nine projects with well-developed plans to start downtown businesses.

Mejia told Steve Clark of the Brownsville Herald that he hopes that quick results downtown will prove to Musk that his foundation's money is well spent and elicit more funding from Musk.