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The Old Dominick Distillery opened in 2017 in a part of downtown Memphis with abandoned buildings and empty streets.

From Blight to Bright Lights in Memphis

This article originally appeared at nytimes.com on May 18th, 2018
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Increased local efforts have transformed blighted areas into buzzy social hot spots, attracting tourists along the way.

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