As Lewis Street gets gentrified, changes are taking places overnight. In the above photo, you can see that Dixie Lock and Key has moved from what has become a high-rent district. As seen in this photo just last year, Dixie Lock and Key was still open. The south side of Lewis Street is almost completely filled and, now, the north side has projects in all of the buildings, on the first, second, and third floors! The whole street is filled with entrepreneurs and visionary small business owners. At the corner of South Elm and West Lewis Street, you will find Downtown Greensboro Incorporated, an economic development organization committed to helping stimulate investment downtown.
We'll feature this corner again next year to update you on the changes. One nice feature is that, regardless of what is transpiring on the inside, on the exterior, the integrity of the early 20th-century façade has been maintained. Greensboro streets still have the feel that they did decades ago. As for the barely-visible DIXIE sign on the left, perhaps someone can get it to the historical museum. Finally, if you notice the two people in front of the building, the young woman is glued to her phone. The young man is walking down the street, hands clasped behind his head, as if he just finished posing for Norman Rockwell.
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