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YNN is partnering with the Austin Business Journal to bring you the latest in business news. Austin Business Journal Editor Colin Pope sits down with YNN Anchor Paul Brown every Monday in Business Now.



06/22/2012 12:19 PM

Business Now: Downtown in need of child-friendly fun

By: YNN Staff

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Downtown Austin is seemingly ever changing, but there’s one crowd that doesn’t have much love in the urban core — children.

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Click here to read more on this story in the Austin Business Journal.

Austin Business Journal Editor Colin Pope said downtown has transformed into a mecca for the hip and trendy crowd, but eventually that same group will settle down with children and remain in the inner city.

The only child-exclusive amenity downtown now is the Dell Children’s Museum, but is slated to move to central Austin soon.

In the meantime, it would behoove business owners to entice a little younger crowd to downtown. Find out more in this edition of “Business Now’ in the video above.