Naw.

It’s a stupid question.

“What town do middle class whites live in??” Is essentially what they’re asking

Wtf differentiates a regular neighbor and a young professional neighborhood?

Weird personal tag to use

This is the most gentrified post on here

What’s the difference between young professionals and other 28 year olds?

Like, what do you do differently?

Naw fuck that

Over priced condos to match the overpriced restaurants in shrewsbury st

The rainbow heart doesn’t make sense

Ralphs, steel and wire (used to be nicks), free play (arcade bar)

Where in pa?

Completely agree.

Better off just buying a half dozen from stop n shop if you want them.

With unnecessarily high prices

Verizon wireless 5G internet has been available in parts of worcester for a few mo the now. $25 a month and no hard wiring into the house.

Agreed.

This area seems to only have wing dings or small portions.

So more perks and walkways people won’t use?

Those businesses were never going to last.

Plenty of people find parking down there during the games and it’s never an issue. There’s several garage and lots, plus street parking.

It’s just an undesirable area with not much to offer. Places have shit hours and poor management. Doesn’t help that a lot of the places down there thrive on the college party scene and cater towards that.

There’s also several new places going into the recently closed restaurants.

Realistically, that area needs something that will draw people every day, not just game days.

Let’s not act like that area was thriving before the stadium arrived.

Or you could just not be hypocritical.

People can watch a sport they love and not agree with the practices.

Stop acting like you actually care this much

The white Eagle are showing morning games all week

Use an iPhone, Samsung device or ever wear Nikes?

They blow, but not watching it doesn’t do anything.

Most small businesses fail.

It’s psychotic to blame this all on the stadium.

The reality is, nobody wants be down there, especially after a certain time. That’s why the market closes early, they get it. Nothing will survive down there unless it’s cheap food, that’s open late or an alcohol based business.

Birch tree shouldn’t even be in convo of this type of thing. Nobodies going to get an egg flatbread after a baseball game at what’s essentially a big cafe.

Bay state is just a really awkward setup. Honestly can’t even tell it’s there.

The stadium isn’t stealing business. Unless you want to park in front of the place you’re going, it’s not hurting parking either.

Y’all want the area to thrive, but love to bitch about things that will bring outsiders in that can help out.

Covid is definitely to blame, but that area is just kind of shitty. You stay down there too late and it’s a rowdy college crowd, which foodies and what not don’t want to deal with.

These places also probably got PPP loans and can’t pay them back, which would make sense since they’re all closing around the same time.

That area wasn’t thriving before the stadium opened. Just seems like they all want to blame something else, rather themselves. It was a golden opportunity to capitalize on the stadium, but they all seemed bitter rather than helping themselves.

Maddie’s had shit hours. Bucks attracted shit people and had bad service. Smokehouse was in the decline food and service wise for a while now.

Parking isn’t an issue. Been down that way plenty of times during the games and find walkable parking with no issues.

All these places are pointing the blame at the ballpark, but they should be thriving because of it.

In reality, these and the other that are closing have just been poorly managed and honestly, are very unwelcoming.

Shrewsbury st is popping and that’s where everyone tends to go. These places need to step it up

Where would they even put these? Like, it’s a cool idea but Worcester still has a ways to go before having stuff like this.