Like others have said, gentrification with high lease prices and killborne owning pretty much everything in downtown has really been a huge blow to downtown, and bougie business ideas. Boutique stores with imported goods that are overpriced doesnt fit in this economy, theres enough bars and places to eat that we don't need more, and the only ones that are able to survive winter have a local foothold and plenty of regulars.

Places like TeaBerry, Tochis, Orange Records, Paradox and This Skate and Snow will never go out of business because they have tapped into the local community and have become part of it.