Read the predictions of five economists on the city’s economic near term if you must, but I find the most interesting part to be the photo of Broadway and Palmetto, showing storefronts first destroyed in 1977 still gutted and full of trash in 1992. The caption illustrates the surprise of the writer that an area that had 20% of its housing burned down and saw any remotely mobile people flee still had vacant storefronts… though I don’t recall ’92 being a banner year for the economy, anyway. Those storefronts have since been bulldozed and replaced by a McDonald’s with a huge parking lot and a soon-to-open Walgreens.