Big Box Retail

City Votes to Control Big Box Stores

Lynchburg, VA approved a new regulation to control big box development in their city earlier this week, despite protests that it would hurt the economy of the area.

25 September 2009 - 6:00am

The Lynchburg News & Advance

Circuit City's Out, Grocery Stores are In

Retail Traffic Magazine reports that grocery stores are increasingly moving into the spaces vacated by big box and chain retailers.

9 August 2009 - 9:00am

Retail Traffic Magazine

Big Box Retail to Destroy Ancient Indian Mound

Officials in the city of Oxford, Alabama have approved the construction of a Sam's Club retail store that will use the dirt of a 1,500 year old Native American ceremonial mound as fill, arguing against reports of its historical significance.

5 August 2009 - 10:00am

Grist

Diana DeRubertis

Shopping: An ‘Obnoxious Industrial Activity’?

Sat, 05/30/2009 - 13:27

As James Howard Kunstler points out in Home From Nowhere, one of the tragedies of single-use zoning is that it branded shopping as an “obnoxious industrial activity that must be kept separate from houses”. Ironically, the places where most Americans shop today come pretty close to “obnoxious” and “industrial”.

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Provinces Must Curb Retail Sprawl

There is a near-consensus on the deficiencies of big box retail, but municipalities don't have the will to turn them down. Provinces must step in with development guidelines, writes Christopher Hume.

15 May 2009 - 5:00am

Toronto Star

Preserving Cuba's Urban Quality

As U.S.-Cuba relations evolve with a new presidential administration, author Richard Louv argues that officials should be careful about relying on commerce to save the country's decaying urban areas without preserving them.

12 January 2009 - 10:00am

Citiwire

Pro-WalMart Study Refuted

A new and widely publicized study claims that there is no evidence that Wal-Mart has had a negative impact on the small business sector. A close inspection of the study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance argues that the report is flawed.

11 December 2008 - 2:00pm

The Hometown Advantage

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A Look At Big Box Reuse

This slideshow from Slate looks at how to reuse abandoned big boxes.

22 November 2008 - 5:00am

Slate

Big Box Retail Owners Ask For Stacked Housing

The two owners of a traditional 8-acre strip, big box retail center in San Francisco have asked for an amendment to the neighborhood plan (undergoing revision) to allow them to add housing on top of their stores, thus doubling the height limit.

14 November 2008 - 12:00pm

San Francisco Examiner

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