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^ Now that the store is boarded up it may serve as a bit of a motivating factor, but come on... we all knew that this store's days as a going retail concern were numbered probably for about the last 15 years. People having been trying to come up with ideas and plans for reuse for at least that long and nothing is sticking.

Maybe the plywood will get governments to loosen the purse strings a bit, but if developers weren't interested in 2015 I doubt they are going to feel much differently about it in 2021. Unless governments are willing to step in and absorb a far greater amount of the costs and risks, that is, which frankly I'm not sure is such a great idea... we already have one very costly government backed development across the street that we're trying to sort out.