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It's pretty healthy retail wise, with the usual turn over due to rental costs. To put it crudely that area has always struggled between ultra luxury businesses that come and go all the time and "small businesses" where it's someone's wife or kid or relative losing 20K a month on an unsustainable business with family money. It's more vulnerable to economic downturns than a normal city just because it's consumption based.
California, Chicago, Detroit, and New York are always targets for partisan doomsaying because of their size and Historic value...but there are entire YouTube channels dedicated to examining the crippling poverty a dilapidation going on in the South and Midwest. The current narrative is that Americans are fleeing to Texas and Florida because Abbott and DeSantis are doing such awesome jobs! Like those are the only two States in the South, and like those two guys arent selling their souls to moneyed interests AND doing everything they can to diminish the voting power of their largest and most successful metropolitan areas. But you won't see entire threads popping up about the sheer destitution going on in those areas, where multiple towns are near dead, have NO commerce at all, and have entire homes, half a neighborhood, or half a downtown area in total disrepair. Though I'm sure even if there was, there would be some mental gymnastics to blame a lone Democrat, or black people, despite there being Republican dominance in the area for nearly a century.
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