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Garden Master
This may be political but I'll give it a try. I hate commercial sprawl. Really, I don't have too much trouble with residential sprawl. I am out there in the exburbs a lot. Everywhere, I see lots that are waaay too big for the homeowners to care for beyond keeping the weeds down! Some don't do a very good job with that but, you see that on city lots, too. Fallow ground is fallow ground. It doesn't bother me much and I see misused & eroded farmland and it bothers me much more.
There are new vacancy numbers out on office buildings. They show a continuing improvement but as the experts say, not enough to raise rents or for new construction. Those are office buildings. Retail stores?! Who knows? I mean there are some national stats that aren't coming thru because of the shutdown but locally -- who knows!!
I am so sick of seeing block after block of strip mall & big box property sitting vacant while store construction takes place right down the street! What is with this plan of vacating a building after 20 years and putting up a new Big Box?! I hate it!
That old, vacant building or strip mall ruins the residential neighborhood that borders it - to the rear! It didn't do the residential neighborhood any good when it was up and running but now, there it sits - unused space and a decaying eyesore! Meanwhile, the same stinking company is putting in a building at a new location about a mile down the road!
Business friendly? I guess. How much of the infrastructure will be paid by what? Improved sales? Higher commercial taxes? What happened to that nice farm field that got ripped to shreds and covered with asphalt? Thanks very much Mr. Corporation and Mr. County Commissioner.
Steve
There are new vacancy numbers out on office buildings. They show a continuing improvement but as the experts say, not enough to raise rents or for new construction. Those are office buildings. Retail stores?! Who knows? I mean there are some national stats that aren't coming thru because of the shutdown but locally -- who knows!!
I am so sick of seeing block after block of strip mall & big box property sitting vacant while store construction takes place right down the street! What is with this plan of vacating a building after 20 years and putting up a new Big Box?! I hate it!
That old, vacant building or strip mall ruins the residential neighborhood that borders it - to the rear! It didn't do the residential neighborhood any good when it was up and running but now, there it sits - unused space and a decaying eyesore! Meanwhile, the same stinking company is putting in a building at a new location about a mile down the road!
Business friendly? I guess. How much of the infrastructure will be paid by what? Improved sales? Higher commercial taxes? What happened to that nice farm field that got ripped to shreds and covered with asphalt? Thanks very much Mr. Corporation and Mr. County Commissioner.
Steve