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Well when you already feel stuck at the bottom with little to nothing to lose, that doesn't mean anything.
Yeah, exactly--why should people care about an economy in which they have little to no role, as either merchant or consumer. I can understand the desire to watch it all burn, if not to do the burning oneself.
Not gonna read through all the politics etc., NOLA has been hit hard- economy is really struggling here. We also had a high death count from COVID early on- our healthcare system isn't great to begin with and really took a hit.
I've heard from friends and family back home that Memphis' downtown is doing okay, all things considered, but not great.
Regardless of folks' views on the politics of the matter, hopefully this stuff lightens up soon; between disease, police issues, and shattering of the econ, etc., it hasn't been a great year...
Has anyone been to LA or Chicago recently? How are the downtown cores in those cities doing--I'd be curious.
I live in downtown Los Angeles and back in June and even into July we had multiple, daily protests. The initial ones ended up with bad behavior with lots of businesses broken into. For a couple of weeks almost everything was closed after 5pm, if not completely. But now the majority of retail and restaurants have reopened, although most are still boarded up (and open) in case of more unrest. Quite a few restaurants are closed and many of them may be closed permanently.
Overall I think that we're 70-80% of what we were pre-covid. Bars, clubs and some restaurants suffered, but many other businesses, including retail, appear to be doing normal levels of business. It has to help that downtown LA has never been the job center that many of it's peer cities are. We're not midtown Manhattan, The Loop, or even Seattle. Our office workers haven't come back either, but they aren't as critical as they would be in most cities. We couldn't haven't lost as many businesses as those places because they weren't here to lose given our lower employment. Also perhaps having more residents at home has made up for fewer office workers? Not sure.
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