Good Bones

George Barnes writes, "Mr. Hubbard said the idea is to clean up what was becoming a blighted area and use it to help make a more active and successful downtown. At one time, the factories in the rear Main Street area provided downtown businesses with a regular customer base, many of whom walked to work, shopped in the stores downtown and ate lunch in the local restaurants.

Today, downtown has lost the factory workers with the closing of the businesses and has been losing customers to malls."