N. Glynn St.

Who’s bright idea is it to keep building new strip malls while others are nearly vacant? Do Fayetteville residents take no pride in their city – why do they allow its continued degradation?

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Submitted by mudcat on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 7:59am.

Your question about why we build new strip shopping centers when the old ones are vacant has a very easy answer - money! Specifically tax dollars to the county or city. The old and vacant center still pays taxes and the new center pays new taxes and fees to get built. Then the new center even pays additional sales taxes because it has new customers shopping at the new and better location. Even the vacant old center pays some sales taxes after they convert to a Dollar Store. Win, win solution for the county or the city. The leadership wins too because the developers, like RAM, make political donations to the leadership.
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Submitted by Citizen_Steve on Sun, 02/05/2006 - 9:50am.

Yes mudcat, it’s a real winning strategy of commercial development. Congratulations Fayetteville.

Unabated strip mall development folds like a house of cards over time. As evidenced in Fayetteville, there aren't enough low end vendors to backfill the commercial vacancy left by businesses moving to the newer locations. What’s left is exactly what N. Glynn St. has become – nothing that anyone would proudly call home.

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