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Originally Posted by Handro
What would your solution be? Flirting dangerously close with encouraging governments to interfere with a free market here. Lowering taxes isn’t going to solve rising rents in desirable areas or the siren song of online shopping. Evolve or die... I hope the furniture store owner finds great success in Florida, it often takes risks (like moving) to find a new edge.
Or alternatively, building more affordable housing to increase foot traffic to budget furniture stores in rapidly changing neighborhoods could do the trick. But that’s often seen as the final step to 1917 Russia to pro-capitalist folks in Chicago, so it’s sort of a rock and hard place.
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He owned the building and said he sold it for a lot less than it was worth.
We need urbanites to stop buying online. They are killing their own city. My God why can't people see that? A city is more than restaurants and bars. However, within a decade or so that is all that will be left. What kind of energy is that?