What The Loss Of Live Music Venues Means For Commercial Real Estate

October weekends at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, are usually crowded with colorful flags welcoming hundreds of thousands of Austin City Limits music festival attendees, taco-slinging food trucks, bright artsy vendor stands and hundreds of hipsters with fanny packs craning their iPhones over throngs of people to record live performances by mega music acts like Metallica, Radiohead and Paul McCartney. But not this year.