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The Shadyside shopping district on Walnut Street in Pittsburgh is almost vacant during the Friday lunch hour of the the G20 conference. Several businesses that were publicly targeted for decentralized protest action that morning or large national chains typically subject to protest action are boarded up. Local businesses other than coffee shops had few customers except for some G20 offical visitors shopping. The private costs of the holding the G20 conference in Pittsburgh are pobably in excess of $100 million for lost business, lost productivity, and extra expense for security.
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