Urban Blight – The Doom of Any Town
Perhaps you’ve seen examples of this in your town. A big shopping plaza filled with several big-box stores opens up to great fanfare, then as the years go by, the stores close one-by-one, leaving large, abandoned buildings and deserted parking lots to litter the landscape. Do you know what I mean? I’ll use some examples from the largest town near me – Hagerstown, MD (population @40,000). It’s at the intersection of two major highways, I-70 and I-81. You’d think that…