Well, for those of you who are familiar with downtown, the current tenant at the bottom of that building is Eclectic Threads.
So there's a retail space down below, but the top of that building, the second floor of that building has been vacant for a long time.
And if you've seen the pictures in his application and things, he had pictures of the upstairs and it's pretty bad.
And so to provide some additional lodging downtown of an Airbnb nature, you know, that goes along with what's going on at the Chestnut building down there.
Going to be a lot more... lodging downtown, going to add to the vibrancy of downtown and what's going on down there.
Well, and this is a fairly common thing to put lodging either short-term or long-term, like apartment lofts, above some of those retail spaces in some of these older downtown buildings in communities all over the place.
You know, you're probably not going to get a retail business to locate up and people have to climb 20 or 30 steps to get up to it.
And accessibility and any number of reasons why retail doesn't make much sense up there.
And, you know, downtown living is not for everybody, but for a certain segment of our population, it's a great spot.
Well, for those of you who are familiar with downtown, the current tenant at the bottom of that building is Eclectic Threads.
So there's a retail space down below, but the top of that building, the second floor of that building has been vacant for a long time.
And if you've seen the pictures in his application and things, he had pictures of the upstairs and it's pretty bad.
And so to provide some additional lodging downtown of an Airbnb nature, you know, that goes along with what's going on at the Chestnut building down there.
Going to be a lot more... lodging downtown, going to add to the vibrancy of downtown and what's going on down there.
Well, and this is a fairly common thing to put lodging either short-term or long-term, like apartment lofts, above some of those retail spaces in some of these older downtown buildings in communities all over the place.
You know, you're probably not going to get a retail business to locate up and people have to climb 20 or 30 steps to get up to it.
And accessibility and any number of reasons why retail doesn't make much sense up there.
And, you know, downtown living is not for everybody, but for a certain segment of our population, it's a great spot.
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