The college town of Madison.Wisconsin was once a quirky place with a lot of unique retail places but has slowly been overtaken by restaurant investor scams who right now are finding it hard to find qualified cooks to work for low-wages. In early February the city announced a plan to save these retailers by matching a grant up to fifty grand to helping them remodel existing unique structures that still survive in Madison's sprawl yet walkable downtown area.
The strength of downtown Madison has always been its great unique locally owned companies that are quickly being squeezed out of the district to these restaurateurs who want every business to be one of these over-priced and bad eateries. the funky flavor of the downtown district has changed as wealthy students, many from foreign lands but American currencies, buy up condo developments and new apartment towers.. there are now some one hundred restaurants in this small city of two hundred grand and clearly this investing scam of opening up and then selling restaurants has taken a hold in mad Town. The independent retail flavor is indeed endangered and is exactly why this city went to the lengths to try to preserve their spt as one of America's unique environments.
Madison on is trying desperately to prevent the downtown into becoming just one big eatery nd drinking pace and retain space for shops and buying clothing and so forth. the grants given by the city hopefully will encourage more growth and stop this trend and help to retain some of these odd structures that can't ever be confused for cookie cutter strip mall development that is more parking lot than actual sit down space. downtown Madison Wisconsin is one of the few places that gets it right and has always done a good job battling the car-obsessed culture in this country whose dullness and imagery of a nation has resulted in an ignorant country deserving of the silliness of such space throughout the country preserved of empty gravel and concrete.
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