Statesman story yesterday

The Statesman did an A1 feature yesterday about business development in East Austin. The focus of the story is different from ours - it focuses mainly on the changing business climate on the east side and looks at long-established, family owned places as well as some of the newer spots and how some of the older businesses are feeling pressure from rising property taxes.

It's a long story, but it's worth the read. Here's the main story, here's a sidebar story that accompanied the main piece, here's the photo gallery we ran online, and here's the accompanying video.


For some reason it cracked me up to hear the hardware store owner say 'yippies.'

Interesting comments from the small business owner with the beard about getting static from what he calls 'the first wave of gentrifiers.'

There's some overlap with our angle in the video. An encouraging sign, I guess - at least we know we're on the right track.