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Saturday night Columbia economic indicators. Home Expo, where you can buy $7,000 refrigerators, is going out of business. Noodles & Co., where my son and I had a fantastic, pasta-based dinner for $17, was packed.
Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.
Comments
I live and work in Columbia. I think that the best indicator of how tough times are is the wait for a table in a restaurant. 18 months ago, any restaurant in Columbia had a 30 to 45 minute wait at 6:30 p.m. on a week night. Now very few do. The wait is even shorter at Outback where the wait used to start before 5:00p.m.
Posted by: carolb | February 1, 2009 3:35 PM