After 2012 DNC

     After over a year of planning for the democratic national convention, the politicians, journalists, and protesters have come and gone from Charlotte.
     City leaders were thrilled with the outcome. Mayor Anthony Fox said, "I've never seen anything like it in Charlotte. There were events happening all over featuring some of the brightest minds in public policy and American culture and lots of other topics. The city was just alive in a way that was magnificent." 
    While the convention brought in business and national attention to Charlotte there were some places that did not see the increase in business. According to Rob Nixon, owner of Jackalope Jack’s on East Seventh Street, “Our business was solid on Labor Day weekend with early season college football games. After that we dropped off by fifty percent for the rest of the week. I would have closed down but that would have cost my employees money, so it was pretty much a wash.” (http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/2012-democratic-national-convention-tampa/2012/sep/7/dnc-gives-charlotte-business-or-does-it/)