The Anchor is a unique landmark, giving us an urban texture of diversity and adding social value to downtown. I'd also say an historical place for the memories of it's customers over decades of listening to its jukebox and those last, last calls. Forcing the closing of the Anchor is a conceptual and community relations mistake.

Banks on (almost) every New Haven corner and franchise restaurants creates a bland shopping center predictability. Banks on street corners, in fact, are downtown business killers; dead empty spaces at night, sucking up visibility in the daytime. New Haven is a nighttime city. The Anchor is a contributes to this atmosphere attracting customers to places around it as well.

Do not do this.