CROW CHOICE

Are Joe Minton and Kevin Peavy leaving Slocum Street? Their lease, according to street talk, is up and they, like a bevy of others, are facing get-out-of-Dodge rent increases. We all know the puny margins our brethren in the trade deal with, and reasonable overhead is key. Reasonable overhead is sounding more and more like a thing of the past on Slocum Street, with plans for miles of condos and eateries on the drawing boards. I am as free market as the next man, and I suppose this all was inevitable. Still, it is ugly. And this is just the proverbial tip.