GET ME REWRITE: Great Falls City Commission pounds another nail in the coffin of its downtown

Back when Central Avenue was the retail center of town.

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

City bumps parking rates 50 cents to $1 an hour.  (Great Falls Tribune, 5/21/2019)

The City Commission voted 4-1 to raise the hourly downtown parking meter rate by 50 cents to $1, over the objections of downtown business owners who argued it would drive away customers from the city's core business district.

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What's wrong with Great Falls?  (City-Data.com)