It's still mostly commercial, but the developers are starting to see dollar signs with the hipster overflow. They won't knock those buildings down, though. Too much work, and it's not really necessary anyway. They'll just bribe the real estate lobby to rezone the properties, and they'll convert them into lofts. It's already happening.
happening everywhere...downtown new haven in the 80s was a shit hole...no one went down there...now 5 star eateries, starbucks, froyo...all the old warehouses like the Smoothie building are lofts. same with the old Starter building.
rememeber the old Starter jackets and what not?...we used to go there after school and try stuff on and run out...little knuckleheads...anyway they left too along with every other industry...if it wasnt for yale, new haven would be detroit. when Winchester guns left it was the beginning of the end.
that was my footread story minus my father being hung
