The Creative Coasts blogspot is Savannahs sounding board for local thinkers, innovators, wanderers and wonderers. Guest bloggers share their thoughts, opinions and creative noodling from all over the map. This weeks blog is from Susan Isaacs, incoming Chairperson for The Creative Coast and Head Strategic Focus-izer with the Paragon Design Group. Read on to see what Susan and The Creative Coast Team are focusing on for 2012……
I first came to Savannah in the fall of 1996 when the historic downtown was in many ways a scary place. Broughton Street was a hodgepodge of boarded-up windows, oddballs peddling suspect goods, and guys cat-calling as you walked past.
Then, during the course of my five years at SCAD, I watched as things changed. The scary began to disappear and I got the sense this town was resurrecting herself into something new and amazing. I was so taken by this that my plan to leave when I graduated was replaced by a strong desire to stay and become a part of the new Savannah. I was not alone in that hope; many of my college friends felt the same way.
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