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Article: Hopes for downtown Pine Bluff pinned on two new projects.
- Article from:
- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- March 3, 2003
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IT'S NOT GOING AS FAST AS some other towns around the state nor as fast as many in Pine Bluff would like, but the downtown area of Arkansas' sixth largest city is changing.
After struggling for decades as the town spread south and west and retail businesses left for other shopping areas, downtown Pine Bluff is beginning to inspire renewed optimism.
Because of past failures to draw private investment into downtown, and perhaps because of the political squabbles of a racially divided city government, that optimism may be a bit guarded. Still, several things are happening to raise expectations that maybe this time the city can turn the decaying area around. ...