The magic and majesty of the Roxy Theater in Ashland had a great run until its closure. But funny enough, there are still ties to life today if you look hard enough.
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Category: blight
Buildings that become empty vessels: The case of Cardinal Brennan.
The former Cardinal Brennan is just an empty vessel of what it once was, so why is it still standing?
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Reimagining Centralia: What Might Have Been
AI helps visualize a Centralia that never had a mine fire..
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Big empty Lots
The slow closing of Big Lots is a reminder of how things felt when we had a mall.. And how that closed, too.
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Towns that dread sundown, tranq edition
Tranq is here.. and everywhere.. heartbreaking and ghoulish videos of people with amputated limbs and skin falling off makes the scenery appear to be more akin to a horror movie than reality.
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Post apocalyptic mall retail: The revenge of main street
For those born in the 1980s and beyond, we don’t know much of the amazing main streets that once existed. We see boarded up dilapidated evidence that it was there.. But we only new malls. People pondered if malls would kill main street. They did. Now main street got its revenge.. malls are dying too. Sadly it’s too far gone for main street to even think about a comeback, at least in most places.
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