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Big Boxes Move Into The City

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Marisa Waxman
26 November 2004 - 1:00pm

Retailers are adpating to urban areas.

This article notes a growing trend of the entrance of big box retailers into urban Philadelphia. Retailers are beginning to adapt their footprints to urban environments and engage in reuse of existing structures.

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Source: The Philadelphia Daily News, November 26, 2004
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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