For many of us, this is not our first year at A&M-Commerce, and, as such, we feel obliged to compliment the city of Commerce – and its citizenry – for finally realizing and embracing what Commerce is and always has been: a college town.
For our entire college careers, there has always seemed to be this resistance to change that we have felt from the “seasoned” citizens of Commerce. Until this point, it was clear that they wanted Commerce to be a “retirement city” of sorts, where just about everything in town shuts down at 9 or 10 p.m. Also, until recently, the lack of new places for people to was also a prominent marker of this resistance.
This, however, is no longer the case. We now have a few more fast food joints that are staying open later, as well as about half a dozen restaurants being opened in town in the last year. And, with the expected addition of another three or four restaurants in the following year, it looks like the city will be continuing to take further steps in what we, as students, think is the absolute right direction.