Original sentence: Almost immediately after its 1987 opening, it was considered antiquated: too small, somewhat inaccessible, and unable to expand.Another larger, privately-owned convention center opened at the Opryland Hotel 10 miles away during that time, causing the downtown convention center to be overshadowed allmost from its beginning.By law, the runoff had to occur nonetheless; it was also necessary for some city council races, but Fulton's announcement meant that there was very little remaining interest, and hence a very low turnout, for the runoff when it did occur three weeks later.Fulton returned to his real estate and consulting interests, which he still pursues as of 2005.Purcell naturally won easily, which was apparently the outcome foreseen by Fulton and his supporters whether they had continued to contest the race or not.Therefore, the Nashville Convention Center has always carried the nickname "Fulton's Folly" in some circles.This time, some of Fulton's detractors accused him of particularly heavy spending on public works projects in predominantly-black areas of Nashville, and implied that this was a repeat of the pattern of eight years prior, and that mysterously little work had been done in the area on these projects in the interim
Edited sentence: Almost immediately after its 1987 opening, it was considered antiquated: too small, inaccessible, and unable to expand.Another larger, privately-owned convention center opened at the Opryland Hotel 10 miles away during that time, causing the downtown convention center to be a complete bust.By law, the runoff had to occur nonetheless; it was also necessary for some city council races, but Fulton's announcement meant that there was very little remaining interest, and hence a very low turnout, for the runoff when it did occur three weeks later, and which Purcell naturally won easily, which was apparently the outcome foreseen by Fulton and his supporters whether they had continued to contest the race or not.Fulton returned to his real estate and consulting interests, which he still pursues as of 2004.Therefore, the Nashville Convention Center has always carried the nickname "Fulton's Folly".This time, some of Fulton's detractors accused him of particularly heavy spending on public works projects in predominantly black areas of Nashville, and implied that this was a repeat of the pattern of eight years prior, and that mysterously little work had been done in the area on these projects in the interim