An 80% rent increase sounds like the kind of predatory location-locking techniques big chains like Starbucks routinely practice. The article mentioned that a coffee shop was going to locate there. Who is the new property owner of 259 James North? It would have been nice to get their take on this story.
I guess it's easy to say Tim Francis (and other artists like him) could always find a cheaper place to rent elsewhere in the city, now that their efforts to turn around James North have made the real estate much more valuable for these new property owners. Will Art Crawl be relocating along with the artists as gentrification runs it course?
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