A tale of two downtowns, and what ABQ could learn
Following the decline of the tobacco industry in the late 1980s, downtown Durham, North Carolina was a ghost town.
Today, it has an $18.5 million baseball park, a $47 million performing arts center and a $200 million mixed-use project that was once home to American Tobacco.
Phoenix's downtown underwent an even bigger revitalization. After years of suburban sprawl, the city decided to reinvest in its urban core. In the past 10 years, there's been over $5 billion invested in the downtown area.
How...