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Urban Blight – The Doom of Any Town

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…

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The Land of Warehouses

The Land of Warehouses

Every time you look at the business section of a newspaper these days, you’ll see plenty of articles about economic recovery in this post-COVID world we now live in.  This “new” workplace has spawned an abundance of one specific type of industry in my local area. Warehouses. Now I’m not talking about your typical Mom & Pop trucking company with three bays and a forklift, I’m talking about mammoth complexes, sporting hundreds of shipping bays, millions of square feet of…

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