That video store from my youth is now a juice bar.

I saw it on my route through Ohio last month. It made me think about how places become different. What differences have you seen where you live?

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mason2836mo ago

Read this article about dead malls being turned into community colleges or medical centers. It's wild how these huge empty spaces get a second life. Jasons93 has a point that a new business beats a vacant building any day, but man it's weird when your whole childhood landscape gets replaced. The bowling alley where I had my birthday parties is a self storage place now.

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sanchez.mia6mo ago

Sure it's better than a vacant building, but let's be real. A self storage place or a medical center doesn't bring any life to a neighborhood. It's just a different kind of dead space, only open during business hours. The soul of a place matters, and you can't replace a bowling alley full of kids with a hallway of storage lockers. Feels like we're just trading one kind of empty for another.

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jasons936mo ago

Actually kind of glad to see new stuff pop up. That old video store was probably sitting empty for years. A juice bar means someone's trying to start a business, and maybe it's a better spot for people to hang out now. It's just change, not always bad.

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