New Life For Vacant Big Box Sites

23 March 2005 - 2:00pm

How communities across the nation fill in the void left behind when large retail stores leave.

Art student documents how communities across the country are handling the spaces left when big box stores pack up...As stores get bigger, the holes they leave in the landscape once they disappear get bigger, too. Often, sites sit vacant for years because retailers are loathe to let competitors move in."

Source: Times Union, March 23, 2005
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