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Originally Posted by TempleGuy1000
Market East is doing so poor this guy doesn't even know it's a commercial and office district lol. Everyday the buildings between 7th and 15th grow more empty with leases expiring. I'm hardly a MAGA but with the failing mall, every other month shootings outside of it, constant bum fights on Filbert outside the abandoned bus station, empty commercial strips of ghetto former gold stores, empty desolate streets after dark, locked train station doors because it's unsafe after 7PM. I find it comical that someone could think "jeopardizing" that is a "bad thing". Sorry, but this is probably one of the last places on the internet I'm willing to be gaslit into thinking Market East is a healthy and stable neighborhood.
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I'm also hardly a nimby but I'm ambivalent on the arena. I don't think it'll kill Chinatown, it might even be the best thing to stave off any real gentrification, ironically. But I also don't quite recognize this hellscape you're describing. Market East is struggling, to be sure, but you make it sound like it's the setting for a future Mad Max film. I was hanging out there 2 days ago and it was perfectly fine.
The very vocal pro-arena posters sometimes make it seem like it's a binary. Either, arena and we're all good, or no arena and Mad Max. In truth, there are plenty of other directions this could go in if only for a little foresight.