Yes it got really bad during the pandemic. It’s as if the upper classes clearing out of downtown back to the burbs, avenues, and condos created a vacuum that all the other elements of the city filled. They were always there but more hidden. Now they’re in the open because nothing’s pushing back.

With all the shuttered businesses, downtown is basically dead right now. Whole blocks of nothing.

But the tide is shifting. Traffic is back, farmers market is packed, morning sidewalks are full of commuters. A few mor months and it will only be as bad as it was a few years ago.