Retail Behemoths Litter Suburban Landscape
7 February 2001 - 9:30am
When huge discount stores fail, towns are left with acres of useless graffiti-strewn space and the prospect of spending millions in demolition costs.
"The suburban landscape is littered with these rotting carcasses - big, boxy, wide-aisled reminders of stores that once teemed with wild-eyed bargain hunters. The towns are saddled with the prospect of spending millions to demolish the buildings, letting them rot or tackling the nearly impossible task of peddling them to someone else."
Full Story:
Empty stores are a hard sell
Source:
The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 2, 2001
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