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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy
The thing is Austin never really had non stop storefronts and tree lined streets at least since 1980 when I was born. Downtown wasn't much in the 80s and 90s. Wasn't until the 2000s that it began to transform and what we have now is 1,000 times more than we did then.
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This. The "Market District" (where this project is located) was nothing but one car lot after another in the early 90s when I got service there. The "Warehouse District" was . . . derelict warehouses and broken sidewalks.
One can debate the merits of what's going up downtown, but I'm skeptical that what it replaced is, in most cases, worth waxing nostalgic about.