Today's Review has an article about the zoning meeting for the proposed Subway at 46th and Baltimore. I don't live in Spruce Hill, but I agree with the business owners who are concerned about corporate chains taking root here. My concern is that franchises can afford to pay high rents that would price out those businesses who don't own their buildings. I remember how South Street was back in the 1970s and 1980s before McDonalds, The Gap and what have you came in--TLA Theater, Book Trader, all kinds of little boutiques, eateries, galleries-- fun places to go to with stuff you didn't see in the malls. But once the corporate entities took root, gradually the sole proprietors were forced to go elsewhere... and now when you go to South Street what you see are a lot of the same stuff you see in the average mall, and a lot of vacancies.
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