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

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  • my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    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!
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    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.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • callencallen Posts: 6,388
    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.
    10-18-2000 Houston, 04-06-2003 Houston, 6-25-2003 Toronto, 10-8-2004 Kissimmee, 9-4-2005 Calgary, 12-3-05 Sao Paulo, 7-2-2006 Denver, 7-22-06 Gorge, 7-23-2006 Gorge, 9-13-2006 Bern, 6-22-2008 DC, 6-24-2008 MSG, 6-25-2008 MSG
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,954
    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.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
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