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Old 06-09-2012, 03:38 PM
 
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I spent a week in Downtown Chicago 5 yrs ago and was amazed with all the night life. Went to a jazz bar on a Tuesday and it was SRO. Likewise went to San Diego on biz trip and it was the same way.
He said Michigan Ave and the Loop are dead. You must have been in a different area. Our point is that our Downtown is like the commercial districts districts of other cities. Since our neighborhoods are separated by hills and rivers, visitors seem to have a difficult time finding everything Pittsburgh has to offer in the evenings.
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Old 06-09-2012, 03:41 PM
 
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He said Michigan Ave and the Loop are dead. You must have been in a different area. Our point is that our Downtown is like the commercial districts districts of other cities. Since our neighborhoods are separated by hills and rivers, visitors seem to have a difficult time finding everything Pittsburgh has to offer in the evenings.

I was right across from a Blues club, 1/2 block from Harry Caray's bar, and 1 block from the restaurant that cooks everything on a Weber Grill.
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Old 06-09-2012, 03:50 PM
 
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Sounds to me like Copanut was in River North. I agree our Downtown is more equivalent to the Loop.
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Old 06-09-2012, 07:05 PM
 
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Sounds to me like Copanut was in River North. I agree our Downtown is more equivalent to the Loop.
river north has changed a lot, for the better
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Old 06-09-2012, 10:59 PM
 
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I've been to a lot of cities. Even lived in Buffalo, which is not much of a happening place. And I lived abroad for several years. Granted most of my time was spent in major cities, but I just never saw a situation where everything seemed closed. Not the whole downtown, because we did find some places open in the cultural district (though the place where we ate was basically empty at 7pm...) but anyway there was a general sleepy impression in a great part of the downtown. I get that it's a work area, not a play area, but don't people eat/get drinks after work, etc? And it also seems that people walking through might want to stop to eat/get coffee/etc... and if places were open longer, wouldn't that just attract more people to the area in the evening?
In addition to the cities already mentioned, both Houston and Dallas have downtowns that die at 6 pm. I couldn't find anything open in Midtown Manhattan on the weekend either; and was actually able to find a bunch of empty street parking in the Financial District on the weekend. In New Orleans, the CBD is empty after 6pm. In Cleveland too. Maybe since you've lived abroad this is an American thing?
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Old 06-10-2012, 04:00 AM
 
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In addition to the cities already mentioned, both Houston and Dallas have downtowns that die at 6 pm. I couldn't find anything open in Midtown Manhattan on the weekend either; and was actually able to find a bunch of empty street parking in the Financial District on the weekend. In New Orleans, the CBD is empty after 6pm. In Cleveland too. Maybe since you've lived abroad this is an American thing?
This has to be a mistake.....Midtown Manhattan is where NYC gets the nickname "The City that never sleeps".....Midtown Manhattan has it so you can't tell a weekday from a weekend...

Actually Downtown (Lower Manhattan) is the only place in Manhattan quiet on weekends, save for Ground Zero areal, Midtown, Uptown are very lively.

Come to think of it the East Side of Midtown is quieter on the Weekends because it more of an Office/Residential scene and less tourist, but still more goes on that it's nowhere near dead.
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Old 06-10-2012, 04:41 AM
 
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river north has changed a lot, for the better
Indeed.

Apples to apples comparisons are tough with Pittsburgh and Chicago, but if the redevelopment of the Strip goes very well, I could see it becoming our sort of mini-River North (minus all the art galleries).
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:21 AM
 
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This has to be a mistake.....Midtown Manhattan is where NYC gets the nickname "The City that never sleeps".....Midtown Manhattan has it so you can't tell a weekday from a weekend...

Actually Downtown (Lower Manhattan) is the only place in Manhattan quiet on weekends, save for Ground Zero areal, Midtown, Uptown are very lively.
Maybe he meant Midtown South. It's fairly dead on the weekends like the financial district.
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:41 AM
 
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Well, wherever the hell I was, I had a great time. What really surprised me about Chicago was how all the drivers would stop for pedestrians. A littttttllllee bit different around here. SCR tries to mow 'em down. or is that Mr. Priester?
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Old 06-10-2012, 09:46 AM
 
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SCR tries to mow 'em down. or is that Mr. Priester?
That would be Mr. Priester.
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