Edwardsville, Illinois

“The growth of that campus, obviously, has been beneficial to our business community, the retail business community, as well as our restaurants,” Patton remarks. It’s often with an eye to attracting the younger generation of students and workers, who, unlike their parents, who might have been more interested in living in the suburbs and having their homes and cars, are happy to rent and don’t necessarily need a car or two, that some of these downtown redevelopment schemes involve a redesigning of zoning laws so that retail outlets can have living on the second or third floor of a commercial structure. “We have dwellable units above the retails in our downtown, and those are being remodeled and added onto,” Patton reports. “It is very much attractive to the Millennials, the younger crowd. I am a parent of one of those and I see this being positive on both ends of the generations - one being recent graduates from school who don’t necessarily have the down payment or the