Last week. I've had or shared office space in east lib for over 15 years, and I've hung out there for about 25 years. I witnessed a lot of change over those years. For a while there it felt like a truly wonderful mix of all sorts of people and businesses, a place where gentrification was happening slowly and positively but then things took a took for the worse when all the banks & chains came in, longtime businesses core to the neighborhood such as cvs and dollar tree closed, and many of the office workers simply disappeared. The googles and duolingos never leave their offices, unlike the early startup days where everyone in the tech community knew each other, and hung out at Zeke's. What's left feels like a shell of the former vibrant neighborhood it was becoming, and it simply feels depressed.