Posting my Pic of the Day here as well this time...

[acroyear]

The CC across the street, having moved in barely 4 months ago to where Tower used to be (and it was empty after Tower for over a year).  I wanted one last shot of it before "Store Closing" signs plastered it horribly and then it all goes dark...

BTW, this has the Fair Oaks area with now 3 empty warehouse-size stores (Tower/CC, Linens & Things, and CompUSA), as well as Fair Oaks itself at only having half the restaurants it normally should have (with 2 more closed this last month).  None of the competition for those stores will move in there because they all already are at nearby Fair Lakes.

3 restaurants formerly in their own buildings (and 1 gas station) within a 2 mile radius of here have all turned into banks for crying out loud.  You'd think they wouldn't have the cash for that sort of thing, and I'm wondering how many of those buildings won't actually finish their conversion...

Comments

Not that big a shock really

[eiredrake.livejournal.com]

Banks are the only people that have any money. Why? Because we just gave them $350 billion dollars for shits and giggles so they could take spa weekends and get manipedis.

[thelongshot.livejournal.com]

You can also mention the old CC location, which was right down the road from Fair Oaks and is also empty.

Funny thing about that. I actually showed up there before the closed it down with most of the stock moved already. They had a lot of stuff up about the new location except for one important piece: where it was located. I couldn't even find where it was located on their web site. It took a mention of an event taking place there to realize where it was located.