By Dr. Jeff Bird— MUNCIE, IN—The transformation of Downtown Muncie over the last several years has been dramatic, welcome, and long overdue.  I have such fond memories of my youth spending time at the Rivoli and Strand and the one time a year my grandmother would take me to get a new shirt and pants at Ball Stores.  “Those were the Days” as the saying goes.  Something is happening in downtown Muncie now.  It’s exciting and positions this key economic and cultural hub to again become the driver of social interaction in our great city.  Many groups and individuals are…