What's the latest on a developer's 6th Street rejuvenation project
21-05-2024 02:17 via kxan.com

What's the latest on a developer's 6th Street rejuvenation project

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Jesse Fortney owns a bar near Sixth and Brazos Street, an intersection he calls "kind of like a desolate zombie land."One corner houses the now-abandoned Buffalo Billiards, which closed in 2020.
"It's just become a haven for crime and bad things," Fortney said of the space outside. Several other stretches of abandoned buildings exist in other areas of Sixth Street as well.
Private security guards hired by downtown businesses to patrol certain intersections on Sixth Street say th
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