Don’t medium-sized box Carytown

Writing for Style Weekly, David Bass has an overview of the Verizon building redevelopment controversy: Big-box boogeyman be damned: The latest push to bring major retail to Carytown is sparking all kinds of local merchant angst and Facebook organizing — all in the name of keeping the city’s homegrown shopping district pure and largely chain-free. […]

Writing for Style Weekly, David Bass has an overview of the Verizon building redevelopment controversy:

Big-box boogeyman be damned: The latest push to bring major retail to Carytown is sparking all kinds of local merchant angst and Facebook organizing — all in the name of keeping the city’s homegrown shopping district pure and largely chain-free. […]

Almost immediately, fears of Wal-Mart and the big-boxification of Carytown took hold. Developers plan to reuse the136,000-square-foot Verizon building, which seems large enough to handle a major discount retailer. But for practical purposes it isn’t.

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