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Eh. I just moved to work at a Downtown startup. I absolutely love it. Folks love complaining about cities that don't have character - downtown has it like prett
by vogt 11y ago
Eh. I just moved to work at a Downtown startup. I absolutely love it. Folks love complaining about cities that don't have character - downtown has it like pretty much no other. Container park, as a poster before me mentioned is bustling. Grab tacos at Pinches if you're ever by there, they're amazing. Most, if not all of the startups here seem to be doing very well. The author paints a picture that Downtown is being gentrified by the Tony show, displacing things like punk rock bars in exchange for organic farmer's markets. I find this to be pretty much completely false. There's as much punk rock in the area as there is farmer's market right now.
I don't want to call this article a hatchet job because I don't know Hsieh and have nothing to do with him or Zappos or anything, but that's how it came across to me. Downtown Vegas seems like it's going nowhere but up, even despite the glaring little pockets of yesterday that line some of the more run down streets.
Calling the Gold Spike a frat house is pretty on point though.
- plaguuuuuu 11y agoThe article seems to portray the area as insular and pretty homogenous, is that the case? I'd hate to live and work in an area where everyone was doing pretty much the same thing with their lives. Would be weird.. and probably unstimulating.
- vogt 11y agoCould not disagree more. You get people from all walks of life, half due to tourism and half due to the residents and workers of the area. It just so happens that only a couple blocks from where the author speaks of is the highest concentration of law firms in the Las Vegas area. So you're got homeless people, service industry people, lawyers, startup guys, and tourists of all walks of life all mingling in the same area. In fact, since Downtown/Fremont is by all measures a cheaper tourism area than The Strip, the diversity even in all the people just hanging out patronizing the businesses, hotels, and restaurants in the area is much higher than your typical tourist area. I have no complaints. On any given walk from work to lunch in Downtown/Fremont, I can rub shoulders with poverty, the upper class, and everything in between. Half the people are on vacation and love to talk to you, the other half are people who winded up there in the first place specifically BECAUSE they're most likely from a unique mindset compared to most other Americans. If you're looking for consistency and seeing the same thing day in and day out, Downtown LV is not the place.