Professor, artist, and author, Julia Christensen asks “What do we do with all these empty Big Box retail locations”?
When companies like Circuit City go under they leave thousands of Big Box locations empty. Do we turn these into museums, churches, homeless refuge? It’s an issue that is relatively new, and there is a world of opportunity here.
Locally I am reminded of the old Winn-Dixie grocery off of McCart that is now Harmony Science Academy.
March 27th, 2009 at
[...] Perhaps most relevant here is in economic development. While this can mean a great many things, including trolley systems, the comments seem geared towards commercial developments. The people clearly want “nice” retail and restaurant space. I assume by nice they mean “upscale”. My argument would be that there is enough. Perhaps we should begin to define “nice” as smart usage of space in relation to surrounding residences. More intriguing are the ideas that we do not need further commercial developments like strip malls. These we have enough of. True that many spaces may be vacant, but how intelligently are those spaces currently being used? [...]