How a downtown Austin developer's Sixth Street rejuvenation is going

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Jesse Fortney owns a bar near Sixth and Brazos Street, an intersection he calls "kind of like a desolate zombie land."One corner houses the now-abandoned Buffalo Billiards, which closed in 2020.
"It's just become a haven for crime and bad things," Fortney said of the space outside. Several other stretches of abandoned buildings exist in other areas of Sixth Street as well.
"I deal with crime every day because of these boarded up buildings."Jesse Fortney, Sixth Street business ow