When a big developer comes in to line pockets and promises to fill
public coffers even local developers get the shaft...
David J Brooks wrote:
Interesting shots Doug. Nice lighting and clarity.
Your not alone her either.
Our town fathers are letting all the big box stores in and killing our
meager down town.
In a few years, if you start at Lake Ontario and drive north on Hwy 48
to Lake Simcoe, it will all look the same.
Dave
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Doug Brewer<[email protected]> wrote:
The community leaders in my town, like too many others, will not rest until
it reaches the state of anonymity that visitors can't tell it from any other
place, so development of a new shopping mall "out by the Interstate" is
on-going, complete with generic restaurant chains and national/regional
department stores, now two steps removed from the old, historic downtown
area, which is in serious decline.
In between the two is the old mall, once thriving and full of local shops to
go along with the chains. It is now a ghost town, as most of the big stores
have abandoned it, taking their traffic with them and killing the local
businesses.
It's been an interest to me for a while, wondering what will happen to the
space, so yesterday afternoon I drove over there, armed with my K-7 and
FA35/2, to see how it's doing. As part of a new project, called, "What We
Have Left," I want to document effects of this movement.
Not a terribly original idea, I know, but it may be of local interest at
some point, and it's certainly in interesting photographic possibility.
so, http://www.alphoto.com/images/whatwehaveleft/
These are the first of what I hope to be many images on the subject.
enjoy.
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