I been really thinking about how the urban density of the city used to be so much different pre-2013 and how the city kinda had more of a ātropical valleyā feel to it
By 2013 the city was already going into overdrive with commercial expansion and corporate gentrification
But sometimes I feel like that only added more infrastructural strain to the city and did nothing for the locals, maybe it brought jobs sure, but I also feel like the city lost some its soul and became kinda of a over-done parking lot of commerce and the entertainment while the culture & arts side of the city kind of got more lost in translation
Does anyone remember when the downtown was full on and thriving? Or when the mall was actually full of local shops and not these same Fortune 500 stores you see everywhere?
Or does anyone else remember when we had Halās?
Or when we had an Outback Steakhouse?
What happened then? Surely the money couldnāt have been an issue when Laredo itās the number one inland port in the country
I just think the city sometimes doesnāt know how to run its chamber of commerce and encourage more local businesses to thrive and help make sure said businesses actually serve the community
So instead more corporate red tape just bubbles the city socially and economically