The Big Box on Main Street
Convincing a City that Returning Large Format Retail to the Central Business District would be Beneficial and Feasible
by Laurissa Hale
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About the Book
The prevalence of big box stores on the edges of small towns has led to two problems: the outward sprawling of the previously compact town into generally agrarian land and secondly, by attracting shoppers to the periphery of town the once-vibrant central business district become increasingly deserted. By relocating these large retail stores back downtown cities can benefit from an increased tax base downtown, shoppers and smaller retailers benefit from a compact shopping district, and the large retailer benefits from an increased sense of community outreach. In the course of this research I conducted numerous interviews with various townspeople and store owners, examined a multitude of case studies from around the nation, and delved into historic precedent in order to discover what problems would arise from such a move and how they could be solved. Ultimately I found that many of the previous assumptions about locating large format retail downtown were ultimately false and that actually doing so would be feasible as well as beneficial.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Architecture
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Project Option: Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
# of Pages: 210 - Publish Date: Dec 17, 2010
- Keywords Big box, downtown, revitalization
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