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Memphis, TN. Good food, good music, and a giant pyramid with a Bass Pro Shop in it.
Memphis is one of those cities that will surprise you with its liveliness: where downtown is vibrant on certain streets and in a few pockets. The Beale Street area and the south Main areas have good vibrancy and people out and about walking.
There are just a lot of quiet, "dead" zones in downtown Memphis. It's the exact same problem that the large majority of downtowns have.
Many US downtowns have bulldozed historic dense houses or townhomes in their downtown areas, where vibrancy was in full effect, in the early part of the 20th century. They have replaced those busy downtown pocket neighborhoods with large automobile parking lots, under-utilized stadiums or arenas, half full to nearly empty office buildings, or just large buildings that do not attract any street activity, whatsoever.
Most downtowns in the US are just sad with their level of "dead."
Anyway, Memphis is actually better with bustling activity, than most cities its size downtown.
New Orleans is not “infinitely” more busy at night than any +5 million metro with maybeeee the exception being Boston due to culture… even adjusted adjusted for population. Don’t let the French Quarter/Bourbon street wrap the reality of the city.
Yes, we actually should replace downtown with urban core as downtowns aren't defined the same so it’s an objectively apples to oranges comparison. It’s an arbitrary term.
The original quote was about Atlanta and Dallas.
Umm the city is not just the French Quarter, downtown also includes the CBD and Warehouse District.
I'd assume those neighborhoods are busier on a Monday night than downtown Atlanta or Dallas.
eh, I've been to both. Great small cities that have a good tourist flow. I adore Charleston.
For their size, they are bustling, and vibrant. But they are also very slow, historic and "sleepy" southern cities, that's part of their charm.
I'm on the fence about including them. Because then I feel like you'd have to include busy tourist cities like Myrtle Beach, Daytona Beach, Santa Barbara, Atlantic City, Reno, Gatlinburg, Ocean City, Branson, etc....although Savannah and Charleston are much larger than all these.
I think Charleston has a case at least. Their downtown is pretty solid, moreso than Savannah, Santa Barbara, Daytona Beach, etc.
St. Pete should probably be included as well. It’s not quite in the same league as Boston and San Francisco, but it definitely has a vibrant downtown.
Lesser discussed cities on here that have pretty vibrant downtowns:
Detroit
Milwaukee
Grand Rapids
Omaha
Chatanooga
Des Moines
Lexington
Madison Orlando
no. not really. Orlando's downtown is not vibrant. Dad owned a restaurant down there... its a 4/10. It has a great nightlife/club scene of Friday and Saturday nights though. However, with Creative Village/UCF/SoDo Infill, t might be in just 4-7 years. We shall see...
no. not really. Orlando's downtown is not vibrant. Dad owned a restaurant down there... its a 4/10. It has a great nightlife/club scene of Friday and Saturday nights though. However, with Creative Village/UCF/SoDo Infill, t might be in just 4-7 years. We shall see...
Disagree, downtown Orlando is much better than Des Moines or Grand Rapids, or Lexington etc.
For a metro nearing three million it is underwhelming but overall it is more dense especially residentially than you would think. Lots of midrise residential and a nice Publix.
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