Field of Dreams was not only a seriously awful movie (apparently only according to me) but it was Fake News. It is not true that "if you build it, they will come". The Kelvin Grove Urban Village where I work is a fine case in point. I'm pretty sure that of all the original tenants in the Village Centre only two remain - the chemist and the fish and chip shop. They built the centre promising a place for dreams for investors and affluent empty nesters. What they got was a whole lot of students more interested in Subway than in vintage wine. One after one the original shops have closed. Some have had multiple tenants over the years. Dreams turned to nightmares for some of the shop owners. Some construction, however, is only meant to be temporary. The Theatre Republic as part of the Brisbane Festival is under construction for another year. It's the home of the smaller, more niche more experimental end of the festival theatre and it's my kind of republic. Right now its all high vis but give it a few days and they WILL come.
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