Lights on upstairs!

Our building is in a pretty unique location. We are very short walking distance from bars, restaurants, several banks, a grocery store/butcher(actual real butcher), Gym. Just about everything is within walking distance. So during the day our street is quite busy with people going about their daily business's.
As the mine workers left, less & less people lived in the apartments & boarding houses located above these storefront businesses. I heard the historic population high in Butte was over 100K, all in the uptown area. The population gradually left the area and migrated away towards "the flats" Im guessing we are the first people to live in the historic uptown area in 30+ years. By the time the bars close there is nobody uptown, leaving us in a ghost town. I figure roughly 90% of the uptown store fronts are occupied by businesses, but the floors above these business have long been vacant. Things are rapidly changing. In the next couple of months a project similar to ours will be completed, and more apartments will be available in the uptown. The Acoma restaurant (300 feet away) building is rumor to have been purchased, by a developer who plans to convert the upper two floor into luxury apartments. The Fox hotel & neighboring building on the other end of park street has been purchased by a man who is also starting a project similar to ours(much larger scale). Anyways the point to this whole thing is the lights are comming back on in the uptown. I figure roughly 80 uptown structures have dark upstairs windows. And until last night the imperial was one of them. I rewired some old lamps found in the building, ran some extension cords to them and now the lights are on upstairs in the Imperial.


People are getting curious, & I am hopping to encourage others in lighting their upstairs windows at night.