saintsandopossums t1_iya3w8d wrote
It's kind of ironic that the discourse around the neighborhood went from "Polar Park will be great to the Canal District" to "why haven't the lazy restaurants done better in changing their whole businesses to adjust to the impact of the ballpark?" in a span of only a couple years
It's not an unfair question, but that's not how the park was sold! The rhetoric was that it was going to be a rising tide lifts all boats situation, and that clearly wasn't the case. Property speculation may have happened anyway, but it's not "being mean to the ballpark" to spare a thought for the service workers who are losing jobs before the holidays when these places close
guybehindawall t1_iyanpds wrote
Also, everyone's assuming that restaurants aren't staying open after games just because they don't feel like it. Seems more likely to me that they aren't doing it because the business they get from it isn't enough to justify it.
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