One of my favorite dining places may be shoved out by high rents

[ellen_datlow]

Just got this alert from a friend:
Florent and greedy landlords

I'm really depressed about this. It's the last bastion of reasonable prices and a fun, relaxed atmosphere in a neighborhood that has been drowned by greed and real estate lust. This absolutely sucks if it's true.

Comments

[readwrite.livejournal.com]

That's a drag. Florent is a cool place, especially late at night.

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it's happening all over. Here in Dallas, the big boom is in evicting good restaurants and businesses in buildings with some sort of historical heritage, and then demolishing them before anyone can file protection papers. I really don't know what to do about it, and in an age where even CBGB's shuts down, the road ahead is getting awfully misty.

[rosefox]

Oh my god. I grew up there.

*cries*

[sarcobatus.livejournal.com]

The last vestiges of old Americana are doomed. The international corporate empire, with help from our treasonous American leaders, have engineered America's down turned economy so that ultra wealthy investors can buy up property and muscle out old fashioned, small time entrepreneurs--not to mention the middle class.

Artists and writers will suffer, I'm afraid, along with everyone else who has not sold his/her soul to ol' Scratch for a wretched fortune in gold.

Forgive me for waxing political, but the whole mess makes me want to puke. And I don't see any end to it in sight.