By JIM BUTLER

The city administration sees Alexandria’s Masonic Drive corridor as opportunity.

Today it is providing citizens the chance to see a proposed development plan and to share thoughts on what they would like included.

From 3-7 p.m. in the Mall Food Court city representatives want to chew the fat regarding what the corridor, mall on one end, Lee Street the other, could become. The mall property, artifact of retail’s golden age, is key as a gateway to a zone of retail, recreational and health care activity.

The city Project Reignite envisions private dollars paying for mall redevelopment; public dollars, an estimated $82 million over time, for infrastructure changes in the corridor.

Public funding would be a combination of municipal bonds, capital outlay allocation and state-federal grants.

What, the city asks, do you want?