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Empty Big Boxes: Communities Rethink The Strip Mall

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Nandita Godbole
13 March 2002 - 7:00am

Retail closings can hurt communities. Some are looking at new uses for the empty "big-box."

"Often located as one of the anchors in a strip mall or an older shopping center, the wave of empty big-box storefronts from defunct or bankrupt discount retailers like Montgomery Ward, Caldor, Ames Department Stores, Bradlees and Service Merchandise can bring about the rapid decline of a once vibrant shopping center."

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Source: ABC News, March 12, 2002
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The promise of 'communities' yet-to-come must be particularly offensive to people who pre-date incoming developments. What is the 'beginning of a community that has the body language of a community?' Does this imply that the current neighborhoods in and around downtown Los Angeles lack such a 'body language'?
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