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Originally Posted by hudkina
Crime is falling. The city is able to pay its bills. Population loss has slowed. City services are beginning to improve. Blighted structures are being removed en masse. Businesses (both local and national) are opening shop in the city. Jobs in the city are increasing. The population in the core is rising. Long-abandoned skyscrapers are being renovated. The white population is increasing for the first time in decades. A streetcar line is under construction. Apartment vacancies in the core are about 1%. Rental rates are at the $2 per square foot magic number. Hipsters are being priced out of Midtown. A game-changing arena/entertainment district is being built. Streetlife in the core has increased. The median income in the core has gone way up. Infrastructure improvements are underway. And so on...
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Things are improving for sure, downtown's looked better than I've ever seen it in 20 years. But the city still faces quite a few challenges that the downtown area simply can't fix on its own.