Opinion: Transforming Gainesville’s future Fencing along the sidewalks of Bradford Street protect pedestrians from major renovations along the downtown Gainesville street. - photo by Scott Rogers Like kindergarten kids demolishing Lincoln Log villages to pack up the pieces when class is over, there’s a lot of destruction happening in downtown Gainesville these days. Wrecking crews recently took down the former Turner, Wood and Smith building on Bradford Street, and this past week the parking deck adjacent to the old Regions Bank building was turned into a pile of concrete rubble, eventually to be followed by the building itself.