Downtown Retail Then and Now
I just note the small story on Downtown retail. PG: Mayor's roundtable to beef up Downtown retail district
From the archives and my friend Jim D are the 161 pages of: Who Shops Downtown and Why? August 3, 1989 by Jim DeAngelis.
Though as I noted yesterday with some stats, I bet at least some of the great retail collapse, and the thousand fewer Mom and Pops in the region over the last decade, is coming from Downtown shops. I mean.. Honus Wagner closed!
Oh yeah... VOTE!
From the archives and my friend Jim D are the 161 pages of: Who Shops Downtown and Why? August 3, 1989 by Jim DeAngelis.
Though as I noted yesterday with some stats, I bet at least some of the great retail collapse, and the thousand fewer Mom and Pops in the region over the last decade, is coming from Downtown shops. I mean.. Honus Wagner closed!
Oh yeah... VOTE!
posted by C. Briem at Tuesday, November 08, 2011
4 Comments:
Maybe the downtown Barnes and Nobel would have made a go of it if the library weren't giving it away for free right across the street.
so what did Ralph's Discount in?
actually, the B&N was a discussion in one of the first posts here. I tend to think there were some other issues at that location as well.
http://nullspace2.blogspot.com/2006/11/bookless-burgh.html
Nearly all the bookstores mentioned in that discussion are now closed. I used to buy a dozen or more books a year just because I was always near a bookstore.
I always thought the beginning of the decline of Downtown retail came when Kaufmanns moved its book department from the first floor to the ninth.
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