A State Capital Without A Hotel

A city without a hotel for 16 years will get one that could revitalize it's downtown.

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March 29, 2002, 6:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Trenton is a small city, 85,000 people in eight square miles engulfed by a landscape of the new and the outsized: McMansions, S.U.V.'s and malls and big-box clusters that sponge up the area's considerable disposable income... As the state remade the downtown, it razed town houses and elegant if faded commercial buildings, replacing them with government-issue cement architecture. Each building was used by hundreds of workers, but each would empty by dark... Still, Trenton is taking a step toward normalcy, toward acting like the other state capitals."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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