It’s as formulaic as a rom-com. Any story about developers revitalizing a downtrodden area will include a paragraph like this one from the Chicago Tribune: “But the city’s latest reinvention still worries some residents. It’s tough now to afford housing and food, they said. And although the development blueprints look great, hundreds of new, expensive apartments and amenities could remake downtown into a place for the tourists and the affluent, pricing out struggling Kenoshans.” I know what you’re thinking: Where the heck is Kenosha? It’s in Wisconsin, by Lake Michigan. For six months of the year it is brutally cold […]
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