The upside of commercial vacancies (not)

February 25, 2010 by Jeanne Bonner · 20 Comments
Filed under: Cityscape, SMART GROWTH 

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I suppose if you had a whole bunch of empty storefronts under your control and New Line Cinema came along and said, “Hey we’d like to film a Farrelly Brothers movie called ‘Hall Pass’ that stars Owen Wilson in your empty shops,” you’d say yes.

But isn’t it a bit sad that that’s how you’re using these empty shops, recession or no?

Isn’t a bit sad, and potentially a sign that your strategy isn’t working, if the only use one particular corner shop has seen is as a fake Borders and now a fake real estate office?

That’s what’s happening at Glenwood Park (above), the planned, new urbanist community between Grant Park and East Atlanta.
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