[alternatives?]

What is the real reasons for the closings?

[mylife]

I imagine it was the covid

[mylife]

and the “wokeness”

[GOP Poet]

Good question that I didn’t notice was mentioned with any unifying reason in the article. Oberto sold to a Canadian company in 2018. I gathered Remo’s was impacted by the Covid virus. Mentioned lightly in the article. So that is my assumption.

[monkeyshine]

What 'real reason'? It has to be racism.

[GOP Poet]

I bet all those ‘protests’ in the area that were spotlighted north of there in Capitol Hill most likely impacted the decision as well. That area was none to safe way back when I lived there. It could be sketchy on the regular. That’s part of life in that area. But I’d be curious to find out if there were violent protests down in that area as well that also impacted their decision for the long term.

[PIF]

What is the real reasons for the closings?
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Would not be a surprise after seeing some of the video from Seattle if the reason was the presence of more huge homeless camps

[hanamizu]

“What is the real reasons for the closings?”

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This is an admittedly uninformed opinion. I am not Italian, and I’ve never set foot in Seattle. I think a lot of it is the passage of time. A large part of the Italian migration was well over 100 years ago. People live their lives, prosper, or don’t and leave things like businesses to their children. Their kids may well enthusiastically take over the family business, but the grandkids? The great grandkids?

There is an Italian section in St. Louis called ‘The Hill’. Lots of restaurants, delis, etc. The Hill is almost ferociously kept nice and actively resists encroachment by what the locals consider undesirable elements but the homes and lots, in keeping with their age are quite small. I frankly think it will eventually disappear, like we all will.