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San Jose has lost it's downtown again.
1 posted on 09/09/2024 4:32:07 PM PDT by Vendome
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Well, LA is a great big freeway. In a week or two all the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.


2 posted on 09/09/2024 4:34:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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That’s a shame, but not unpredicted. I remember SJ in the Silicon Valley 80’s but that’s forty years in the past. City fathers who planned on the basis of unlimited revenues forever and ever were warned and they didn’t listen.


3 posted on 09/09/2024 4:36:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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LOL. San Jose has always been desolate after work is done. I was actually there for music in the park in July, and I was surprised by how much was going on.


4 posted on 09/09/2024 4:38:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I lived there in the 80s when the city invested something like a billion bucks in their downtown… and it worked. Downtown was bustling again. I’m saddened to see this result


5 posted on 09/09/2024 4:38:26 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Same with Memphis and it’s business district downtown. Everything is vacant and unoccupied. Beale Street is barely alive. The city owes those thanks to Graceland Tourists.


6 posted on 09/09/2024 4:39:32 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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No one wants to know the way to San Jose anymore...not even Dionne Warwick.


10 posted on 09/09/2024 4:45:03 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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There were two restaurants I visited in downtown San Jose and that was about it.
The Imperial Turd rules what remains.


12 posted on 09/09/2024 4:53:35 PM PDT by Zathras
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Bus all those Hatians to San Francisco and San Jose. Plenty of empty housing for them there, and a generous welfare state!!!


14 posted on 09/09/2024 5:04:00 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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wow didn’t realize. don’t get downtown much anymore.


15 posted on 09/09/2024 5:14:10 PM PDT by dadfly
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Another California Earth Wake

16 posted on 09/09/2024 6:33:50 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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What a drop from the early 2000s when I visited Cisco on business.


17 posted on 09/09/2024 7:28:45 PM PDT by plain talk
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[But after the major layoffs]

President Donald Trump tried to start fixing things.

But, noooooooo, keep voting Democrat. It’s working great!!


19 posted on 09/09/2024 11:42:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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