Are Banks and Pharmacies the only thing being built?!?

Bentleyspop

I live in colorado so we have lots of craft breweries and marijuana dispensaries popping up everywhere.

FoxyRedLa

I concur with pharmacies and dollar general type stores. There's a CVS going up in a town over. My little city has 3 type of dollar stores and 4 banks. We have 2 pharmacies.

Enkidu

There seems to be a new CVS going up all the time - we have 2 in our neighborhood, across the street from each other. And it's funny, because both pharmacies used to be good, and now they're terrible.

HesCalledDyer

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

We've had a shit ton of bail bond places pop up over the past 2-3 years. Like, we never had a single one until then. Now there's about a dozen of the damn things.

Fucking prison. Yeah it brought jobs to the area, but it brought families of prisoners, too. Heroin & oxy are all the rage. Stabbings & shootings happen almost monthly now. Ten years ago the big crime was stealing car stereos, now people are getting knifed for no reason.

Dyer do you live in Cumberland, MD?

You got it! Quite the metropolis here!

tempo_n_groove

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

We've had a shit ton of bail bond places pop up over the past 2-3 years. Like, we never had a single one until then. Now there's about a dozen of the damn things.

Fucking prison. Yeah it brought jobs to the area, but it brought families of prisoners, too. Heroin & oxy are all the rage. Stabbings & shootings happen almost monthly now. Ten years ago the big crime was stealing car stereos, now people are getting knifed for no reason.

Dyer do you live in Cumberland, MD?

You got it! Quite the metropolis here!

I built one of your prisons there. Circa 2001-2002. I built them for 15 years and know what good and bad comes with that...

PJ_Soul

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

We've had a shit ton of bail bond places pop up over the past 2-3 years. Like, we never had a single one until then. Now there's about a dozen of the damn things.

Fucking prison. Yeah it brought jobs to the area, but it brought families of prisoners, too. Heroin & oxy are all the rage. Stabbings & shootings happen almost monthly now. Ten years ago the big crime was stealing car stereos, now people are getting knifed for no reason.

Dyer do you live in Cumberland, MD?

You got it! Quite the metropolis here!

I built one of your prisons there. Circa 2001-2002. I built them for 15 years and know what good and bad comes with that...

Sooo...... you're the one to talk to when it comes to prison breaks? Wondering for just in case.

tempo_n_groove

PJ_Soul said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

We've had a shit ton of bail bond places pop up over the past 2-3 years. Like, we never had a single one until then. Now there's about a dozen of the damn things.

Fucking prison. Yeah it brought jobs to the area, but it brought families of prisoners, too. Heroin & oxy are all the rage. Stabbings & shootings happen almost monthly now. Ten years ago the big crime was stealing car stereos, now people are getting knifed for no reason.

Dyer do you live in Cumberland, MD?

You got it! Quite the metropolis here!

I built one of your prisons there. Circa 2001-2002. I built them for 15 years and know what good and bad comes with that...

Sooo...... you're the one to talk to when it comes to prison breaks? Wondering for just in case.

HAHAHA! I would get asked that all the time and my reply was "the front gate". Only way out!

HesCalledDyer

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

We've had a shit ton of bail bond places pop up over the past 2-3 years. Like, we never had a single one until then. Now there's about a dozen of the damn things.

Fucking prison. Yeah it brought jobs to the area, but it brought families of prisoners, too. Heroin & oxy are all the rage. Stabbings & shootings happen almost monthly now. Ten years ago the big crime was stealing car stereos, now people are getting knifed for no reason.

Dyer do you live in Cumberland, MD?

You got it! Quite the metropolis here!

I built one of your prisons there. Circa 2001-2002. I built them for 15 years and know what good and bad comes with that...

Wow, small world!! That would be the one; opened in '03.

tempo_n_groove

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

We've had a shit ton of bail bond places pop up over the past 2-3 years. Like, we never had a single one until then. Now there's about a dozen of the damn things.

Fucking prison. Yeah it brought jobs to the area, but it brought families of prisoners, too. Heroin & oxy are all the rage. Stabbings & shootings happen almost monthly now. Ten years ago the big crime was stealing car stereos, now people are getting knifed for no reason.

Dyer do you live in Cumberland, MD?

You got it! Quite the metropolis here!

I built one of your prisons there. Circa 2001-2002. I built them for 15 years and know what good and bad comes with that...

Wow, small world!! That would be the one; opened in '03.

Yep. That's me.

Beautiful town you have. Driving in and seeing the steeples and buildings rising above the freeway coming in.

People won't understand it's beauty. One of my favorite places to see driving.

Please pm me.

ldent42

I think it's because they are the only ones who can afford the damn rent anymore. Banks usually own the building, I have no explanation for the pharmacies. In my neighborhood, on one corner 3 shops (bodega, dunkin, & something else) burnt up & a CVS eventually replaced it. On the opposite corner, a TD Bank kicked out a doctor's office, an eye glass store, a bodega, and something else I don't remember.
For a while, there were two pharmacies next door to each other. Then rite aid bought eckards and there were two rite aids next door to each other! Eventually they knocked the wall down and became one door.

Recently, a bank closed a few blocks away. And the movie theater next door couldn't get it's least renewed. The owner wants to build condos. :-( but the pub next door has a lease for like 2 more years. They've been closed for months since a mysterious kitchen fire (in which no one was injured) destroyed the back. The situation with rent and commercial spaces in ny is insane.

my2hands

Bentleyspop said:

I live in colorado so we have lots of craft breweries and marijuana dispensaries popping up everywhere.

That's a lot better than banks & pharmacies!

callen

Always saddened when I go to another place in our country and it looks just like everywhere else. Same stores, restaurants a, banks, advertising. United States of corporations.

callen

ldent42 said:

I think it's because they are the only ones who can afford the damn rent anymore. Banks usually own the building, I have no explanation for the pharmacies. In my neighborhood, on one corner 3 shops (bodega, dunkin, & something else) burnt up & a CVS eventually replaced it. On the opposite corner, a TD Bank kicked out a doctor's office, an eye glass store, a bodega, and something else I don't remember.
For a while, there were two pharmacies next door to each other. Then rite aid bought eckards and there were two rite aids next door to each other! Eventually they knocked the wall down and became one door.

Recently, a bank closed a few blocks away. And the movie theater next door couldn't get it's least renewed. The owner wants to build condos. :-( but the pub next door has a lease for like 2 more years. They've been closed for months since a mysterious kitchen fire (in which no one was injured) destroyed the back. The situation with rent and commercial spaces in ny is insane.

Every undeveloped lot is turned into freakin strip center in Houston area.

PJ_Soul

callen said:

Always saddened when I go to another place in our country and it looks just like everywhere else. Same stores, restaurants a, banks, advertising. United States of corporations.

I have never had this feeling when I've visited different places in the US.