The New York Times is reporting serious trouble with Baltimore's efforts to attract young people to live in the city's "new" downtown. But here's the really interesting part, at least from Pittsburgh's perspective:
But the fallout from the housing downturn is already showing up as a setback in this struggling city’s effort to reinvent itself as a robust commercial center, one in which a spruced-up and rebuilt downtown has attracted new residents, particularly young people, as well as more office workers.
In recent years, the housing boom propelled this process forward, here in Baltimore and in Cleveland, Memphis and Pittsburgh, among other cities. That is no longer true.
Really? The process was being propelled forward here? By a housing boom?
Could be, I guess. But "propelled"? And "boom"? I don't know...
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