It starts out strong enough, rows of rehabbed buildings with award-winning restaurants around Compton Avenue.

Then it starts to get a little more quiet, and the buildings, while well-maintained, start to look a little less august.

And then the giant swaths of grass, generating zero activity, and surely zero tax dollars. Is this the middle of a major city, or an exurban greensward?

Wouldn’t the people in this building want somewhere they could walk to?