After the city government exercised eminent domain over Bopiliao, it set up a task force to study how to restore the old neighborhood and how to make use of it.
老街厝邊星散後，命運各不相同，有些老店堅守傳承，另找新店址重起爐灶，更多人則選擇歇業，讓美好記憶永遠停格在剝皮寮。蛻變・新生而市府自 1999 年正式徵收剝皮寮後，也組成專案小組，研討老街應如何修復？修復後又應該如何使用？