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If I could do one thing to improve my community, I would address the empty retail spaces. There’s still a good deal of construction in my area, but the online shopping boom (partially due to covid) a lot of traditional brick and mortar retailed stores in my area have close.

It’s a little shocking today because construction and city’s population kept climbing for years. I live in the same area i originally grow up in, and it seems like the change in the economy, the population and property values seemed like they would never stop climbing.

I know none can force businesses to move into an area, but if you have empty storefront, I would insist that owners re-develop the property. Ideally, I would prefer that they just tear down the storefront and let the land redevelop naturally. Don’t get me wrong, the blight is nowhere near as bad and one would see in Detroit. Few place in America, or the rest of the world, have ever experienced blight on that level

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    Silk Cords

    Oh yeah… Detroit is on an unreal level. People laughed at Robocop for that at the time. Now all that’s missing is cyborgs and a zaibatsu trying to buy out the city. That last one is already happening in parts of California, so…

    Retail space though… I can relate. When I left (greater) Atlanta years ago, it had almost 125 square feet of retail space per person living in the 13 county greater Atlanta area. Too many areas (not just Atlanta) over-developed. All local governments see is increased tax dollars and never think about infrastructure and other issues.

    I’d prefer a combination of carrot and stick to deal with it all; incentives for redevelopment and limitations on new construction while there’s vacancies everywhere. If property gets too bad, start enforcing building code violations heavily also.

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      rebuilding rob

      Detroit has a long way to go, but I had gotten A LOT better in the last 20 years.

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        Silk Cords

        Good to hear. At one point, seemed like about 10 years ago, I remember reading stories that they were considering turning a big chunk of the city into a permanent movie lot for zombie and other apocalyptic movies. Pretty wild.

        To bring that back to Atlanta, the mall I used to shop at regularly back in the 90s was a prominent location in a recent Will Trent episode. Having driven back through there about a year ago, I can atest to that neighborhood being that bad now. Even Mall of Georgia, North of Atlanta is a shadow of it’s former self. It used to be the second biggest Mall in the country, and very upscale. Now… Meh.

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