Sounds like Chicago to me. Its much more cut up by freeways and balkanized than we are. However, they have been able to rip down buildings and replace them with new ones. No one sheds a tear about losing the old there, but then again they typically get something better to replace it with. The question is not that we have all of this because many other places do too, but of how did we get the rug pulled out from under us? Why did we not diversify when we had chances to? I can recall not too long ago when you could walk around Chicago and see banks such as Comerica, NBD, on the streets and when Marshall Fields was bought by Hudsons. Somewhere we allowed ourselves to become non competitive and die.
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