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Watching downtown revitalization is kind of like finding gray hairs in the mirror. If you had told me 10 years ago that I’d be seeing so much of it, I wouldn’t have believed it.

I knew, of course, it was bound to happen. Eventually. But not so soon. Not so fast.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m very happy about it. The revitalization, I mean. But it takes some getting used to, after putting so much time and energy into complaining about downtown. It was virtually a hobby of mine — a day just didn’t feel complete without some snide remark about tumbleweeds outnumbering pedestrians on Main Street, or passing a vacant Art Deco masterpiece and mentioning what a great parking lot it was going to make someday.

I miss that thrill of self-righteous indignation. So for old time’s sake, let me suggest a few things that, despite all the progress, downtown still doesn’t have.