https://sightlinesmag.org/pump-project-art-complex-loses-leaseI'm sharing this for two reasons: fuck, I loved that place;
damn, this is what happens when people choose to understand gentrification
only as revitalization for a class/race of people already with greater purchasing power. Creative class (Florida could be more vocal about how this is a really shitty term he coined) comes in on redlined economic disenfranchisement out of their own necessity, contributes to its hipness, and then gets pushed out themselves, because "it's just supply and demand and the economy," as if that economy, S&D don't come from the creation and laws and patterns of preference from living people. Shock. So maybe the fight becomes more about a percentage of sales/etc going into some kinda community escrow for property taxes--- they'd most certainly be able to raise that from all the gentrifying east atx businesses anyway.
