by Guest » October 17, 2014, 3:30 am
The Flats became spring break and martigras combined
It was almost lawless. There was no order to that district among the owners. Fights, drownings, mugging, underage activity, liquor license violations closed clubs, car theft, and so on. The east bank owners would not unite and clean things up. In turn, the city turned thier back on them. The warehouse district just up the hill exploded on the scene and has not looked back. We now have 13,000 people living right downtown since the flats demise. There is big development projects opening up where the row of bars once were.
What we have now beats the hell out of the old flats.
cheers!
The Flats became spring break and martigras combined
It was almost lawless. There was no order to that district among the owners. Fights, drownings, mugging, underage activity, liquor license violations closed clubs, car theft, and so on. The east bank owners would not unite and clean things up. In turn, the city turned thier back on them. The warehouse district just up the hill exploded on the scene and has not looked back. We now have 13,000 people living right downtown since the flats demise. There is big development projects opening up where the row of bars once were.
What we have now beats the hell out of the old flats.
cheers!