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"A historic, below-street-level entertainment district purchased by a new owner in 2020 and currently undergoing efforts at revitalization with new bars, restaurants, retail, and temporary art installations; the owner is seeking another brewery or beer-focused tenant to take the vacated brewing space. Several venues and businesses have opened or are planned as part of the redevelopment (including a music venue, multiple food and drink concepts, and an LGBTQ-friendly restaurant/cabaret/dance club), one nightclub is set to relocate into a former space by year-end, and a previously proposed 21-stall food hall now appears to be off the table. The district dates to post–Civil War storefronts along the railroad near Alabama and Pryor Streets and was largely covered over in the 1920s, creating the lower-level commercial spaces that later housed speakeasies during Prohibition." - Beth McKibben