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your_city_councilor t1_ivd8gjp wrote

This article is weird. Did someone in the city administration offend someone at the T+G? This article sounds like it was written in the late 1980s through the early 2000s, when it was common for every article and discussion of downtown to bemoan how the business district was becoming a ghost town. The only difference is that there was a very brief mention of the pandemic.

There are new things downtown that have opened, like the place where you can throw axes, the new steakhouse, the new restaurant that's opening on top of the Mid-Town mall and a bunch of stuff in the mall itself, not to mention that the whole mall has been/is being renovated.

This really is a strange article.

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andys_socks t1_ivgy62n wrote

I think what the author it trying to get at, is despite business booming for some, especially the newer businesses that inevitably attract crowds, others aren’t faring so well.

Heavy emphasis on the ‘I think’ part, because the article doesn’t delve nearly deep enough into what they are trying to say, if at all, and so ends up saying nothing, really.

Maybe it’s just me, but this feels like it was dropped on someone’s desk and told it needed to be typed up by the end of the day.

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bartnd t1_ivjt0s4 wrote

Yeah this article definitely feels...pointless. Main St being slow isn't a new take by any means, and the article doesn't really focus on a fault nor a solution. It just kind of...let a few business owners gripe without talking about anything else.

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your_city_councilor t1_ivlk8uh wrote

Agreed. Seems like someone told the writer, who's usually good, "Write something that says business downtown is bad."

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