The live music and dancing is the lifeblood of retail, bar-restaurant, and market-night kiosk businesses around the three town squares.
Don't you remember what has happened to almost all downtowns in the USA when there is no retail left or if they close at 5:00, and if you go to one of the few thriving bar-restaurants in the ghost-town downtown, you feel like you need a Brinks truck and guards to deposit you directly into the front door so you don't have to walk in crime-infested parking decks and lots?
If not for the live music and dancing every night, I'm pretty sure that the stores and restaurants would be closed after 4:00 p.m. Translation: Geriatric Estates, Florida.
I think it's reasonable to expect that at some point, retailers/restaurant associations would form to carry on the tradition that launched TV town squares into being three true, hometown downtowns where you can go safely any time you want, from sun-up till midnight.
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