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Downtown Construction Greeted With Pre-Emptive Negativity, Per Speculative Negativity Index

The Corn's Speculative Negativity Index has reached 'severe' for the fourth consecutive quarter, driven entirely by buildings that have not yet been built

A new analysis from The Corn's research department finds that downtown construction in the region is being met with what economists are calling "an unusually high volume of speculative negativity" — that is, complaints about buildings that do not yet exist, will not exist for some time, or, in several cases, are not being built at all.

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