ART PALACE GETS OFF THE POT 
Austin gallery owner Arturo Palacios, on why he’s moving his gallery, Art Palace, to the Midtown space formerly occupied by the Finesilver Gallery at 3913 S. Main St. this coming January: “I went to a fundraiser at the Menil Collection and a friend asked me how many people I thought I would know there. And I thought maybe five or six. The event was for the Menil ‘Contemporaries,’ a group that’s under the age of forty who support the Menil on an annual basis. There were four hundred people there! And the whole time, people kept coming up and asking when I was moving the gallery to Houston. Over and over and over again. We were taken aback. I was talking to a collector and he said, ‘looks like it’s time for you to shit or get off the pot.’ And that’s when I decided it was time. That was a month and a half ago. I knew the space [in the Isabella Courts building] had been empty for some time.” [Glasstire; photo]
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That sounds fine.
Some of the apartments at Isabella Court have been empty for some time as well.
Rail was supposed to “revitalize” Main Street. It appears to have “devitalized” most of it except in downtown although not all is well in downtown due to the economy.
“Rail was supposed to “revitalize†Main Street. It appears to have “devitalized†most of it except in downtown although not all is well in downtown due to the economy.”
Unfortunately, you can thank a number of speculators buying up property all through the rail corridor in hopes of a big payday one day.