Jana Birchum
We wish we had a better label for Liveable City than "activist group," but the all-star quality-of-life nonprofit deserves the greatest credit for the biggest progressive coup of the year – driving Borders Books & Music away from the city-subsidized Sixth + Lamar project, across the street from local indie-biz icons BookPeople and Waterloo Records. By laying data on the table showing the Borders deal would create a net loss for the local economy, Liveable City showed that keeping it weird can actually help keep Austin healthy.
