Now it's just a big empty building. Odd to think of something that big as being obsolete.The new Wal*Mart is about a mile away. Yes, you can see a truck in the McDonald's drive-thru in my rear view mirror.
The rest of the building is in the photo below.
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We had a Lowes move out years ago, I think because of the rent. That place set empty for about five years before it finally got turned into a strip mall. A place across from where I work was once a Food Lion and they went out of business in '97. It just got turned into a Senior Center this past fall.
So strange. We have several very large buildings that have been empty for a few years now, so the city and county are either renovating them or tearing them down to make more judicial buildings. I mean, the city and county are growing but the business sector is what???
We have a bunch of those buildings, too; most notably the old Lowe's(they moved to a bigger, better building) and the Winn-Dixie grocery store building. There's also an old shopping center that has lost almost all of it's businesses over the last 10-15 years, but is sitting there about 80% empty. The local business sector is, more and more, moving to the outer edges of town, so the businesses that are still in the old places are suffering big time.
mm -- wow, I never heard of a Lowes moving -- to a bigger building???
moni -- the growth in government since WWII has been mostly state and local -- the federal government has grown (except for a decline in size when Carter was president) but local and state government growth has been explosive
bruce -- wow, another Lowes on the move -- I had thought they had that single size and that's what why built from Day 1 -- we have a Lowes and Home Depot back to back
That empty Wal*Mart in the photo was actually a replacement for what was at that time a regular size Wal*Mart, that building is now an Orscheln Farm & Home (a kind of really big general store).
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