Surprising Results on Downtown Living Survey

Courtesy AustinTowers Downtown Condo Blog  Tue, 08/05/2008 - 8:07pm

The Austin Business Journal is running a survey on its website that asks online readers the following question: “Assuming you're not one of the thousands moving downtown, why don't you want to make downtown your home?”

While it is not a scientific survey -- to say the least -- the current results do provide some small insights into the obstacles that developers face in luring residents downtown.

As of the time of this posting, the survey had the...



 

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