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Originally Posted by austlar1
What are all the NEW things to do downtown that you couldn't do ten or fifteen years ago? And back then you could do it without breaking the bank. I'm not talking about the loss of Rainey bars and restaurants. Rainey was a bunch of semi derelict houses as recently as 2008, but there were great places to eat, hear real live music, and party all over downtown. So much of that is gone now, some of it admittedly dispersed into the hoods, but still...
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There are more bars and restaurants downtown than 10-15 years ago, absolutely. How is that even arguable? There are even whole new sections of "downtown" that didn't even exist then. There have been some key losses for sure, but in another 10 years time we'll be lamenting the closure of the places we currently think of as new (exactly Rainey's case). Has it gotten more expensive? Sure, but it was more expensive in 2011 than in 2001 too.