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Greensboro didn’t wake up one morning and decide to have a public fight about downtown. It kind of stumbled into it.
A handful of downtown restaurants closed. Not brand-new concepts — established places. The kind people build routines around. And once that started, the mood shifted. The conversation stopped being about menus and started being about something heavier: Is downtown slipping? Is leadership paying attention? Is this economic reality or local failure?…