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Coverage of towers, mixed-use ambition, neighborhood churn, and the civic buzzwords used to sell every new block of Austin.
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Every relevant gripe, memory, and local complaint gathered onto one page.

South Congress used to be weird. Now it's weird that anyone can still afford to be there.

The glass towers crossed I-35 and nobody even pretended to be surprised.

Riverside Drive used to be where you lived when you couldn't afford anywhere else. Now you can't afford Riverside Drive either.

Rainey Street used to be a quiet block of house-bars where you could drink a Lone Star on a porch. Now the porches are in the shadows of 40-story towers.

Before it was Austin's shiniest open-air mall-suburb, The Domain was just a bunch of nothing next to an IBM campus nobody talked about.
Move from subject matter into the recurring editorial formats that talk about it most.
Keep following the same general neighborhood of complaints.
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