Category: American cities

Retail Is the Lifeblood of America’s Cities, and It’s in Crisis

May 23, 2023
American citiesBusiness & MarketsBusiness Columnistsdemocrat citieseconomic policieseconomyFuture Retailin-store retailerNY Real Estatereal estateUncategorizedUS Real Estate
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Commentary Whole server racks (the equivalent of whole forests in the print era) have been sacrificed to stories about “The Retail Apocalypse” and the “Death of Retail.” All the stories present a binary view: retail is dead; retail isn’t dead. The truth lies somewhere in between. Retail, broadly speaking, is doing well. But retail covers…

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The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities

April 11, 2023
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Commentary Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died. That’s when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn’t…

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The Ruination of Great American Cities

April 10, 2023
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Commentary There was something deeply demoralizing about the recent Mayoral election in Chicago, once among America’s greatest cities. The good news is that the catastrophic reign of a deeply corrupt and crazed mayor, who piled egregiously racist policies on top of one of the worst COVID responses in the country, came to an end. The…

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