Town Haul on TLC/Discovery Channel – Open your mind
Hey, give Genevieve Gorder (and her designer cohorts) some credit here.
Formerly of Trading Spaces, she’s the host of a new show with similar ideas called Town Haul on TLC/Discovery Channel that is dedicating six episodes to helping invigorate a tiny town, Jeffersonville, NY, pop. 500. This is more documentary than reality television, and I know other towns wish they were chosen instead, but listen to the naysaying ‘professionals’:
“The credibility of serious professionals who have dedicated their professional lives to making urban places better is undermined”. A professional architect.
“Jeffersonville will be destroyed by Town Haul. If Ms. Gorder were really serious about helping, she’d enlist the help of real professionals: planners and architects. This is irresponsible!” A professional planner.
We need professionals, yes, but how about with a little less control and a lot less ego? The show is airing now, and if you ask me, it sure seems like there’s a renewed sense of energy and pride in Jeffersonville, from the mayor to the merchants to its entire teen population. Some of the work is impressive, like the new teen center. Guess who were the principal designers? The teens, not the so-called ‘professionals’. Makes sense to me.
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Hi! I live in Buda, Tx and y’all were just here on Friday. I and the rest really appreciate y’all coming to our town to interview us!! Saturday evening two little girls came by my store,Sue Ellen’s, and announced they are doing a documentary to get TLC town haul here!! We really, really, really, need your shows help with our small Texas town. We desparately need improvements downtown to create a downtown area that is inviting and interesting to our local residents and tourists. My daughter and I are open in our store every day of the week. We would really like to see our retail business and others really thrive. These days it is very hard for a small store to make it in a town Buda’s size. Even with our buy Buda ads, etc. people tend not to buy here and go into Austin and San Marcos. We have a great potential here, but we need a lot of help realizing it. We have a great old original Buda building directly behind our shop but it desparately needs a complete new roof and a make over. No one wants to tear it down because it is part of our history, but coming up with the money to redo it is extremely hard. This building for example could house a couple of retail businesses and there are more places like this around town. We have businesses wanting to come in but no where to put them. Please, Please, do come to our Buda! Your help in our town Buda, Texas would be the best Town Haul in your series! We have such great people here that want to make Buda the best town in Texas and the USA!!!!