fevers

1.) a contagious rash of business closures in a particular market or area, due to economic down-cycles, market changes, or antiquated business practices. usually expressed as 'the fevers'.

2.) an urban space's natural (though sometimes traumatic) process of purging outdated, irrelevant, or uninteresting businesses, industries, people, and ideas.

"Hey, what happened to the Circuit City?"
"Oh, dude, they've been closed for like a month. Caught the fevers a LONG time ago, probably from Speaker City. You can get all that stuff on the internet now."
"But I want Predator on Blu-Ray NOW!"
"Calm down, dude. Did you take your pills?"
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"Man, did you hear about how you can get a house in Detroit for like a grand these days?"
"Yeah, Detroit's got the fevers real bad."

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