"A band-aid is better than nothing" Can a big donor non-profit organization rescue downtown?

The Downtown Mall, Water Street, photo by Anita Byers.

As the Daily Progress recently reported, the Downtown Business Association has been "absorbed and replaced" by a new donor-funded non-profit called the Friends of Cville, which just kicked off their formation by partially wrapping the rat-infested shell of an unfinished hotel project that has been a …