Is Encinitas the New Detroit?
Albertson's is closing. Toygarden is going out of business. Home Depot Expo is kaput.
Soon there will be nothing left except drug stores and golf "superstores." The city council should organize a junket out to Detroit to learn about urban decay and blight.
New Encinitas businesses supply the majority of sales tax revenue and local jobs for the city. So we should all hope as the economy turns around, new businesses will fill those empty locations.
Perhaps we should bulldoze it all and turn El Camino Real back into Green Valley.
Circuit City doors
Green Valley - before all the failing business were built it had one business...a farm
Soon there will be nothing left except drug stores and golf "superstores." The city council should organize a junket out to Detroit to learn about urban decay and blight.
New Encinitas businesses supply the majority of sales tax revenue and local jobs for the city. So we should all hope as the economy turns around, new businesses will fill those empty locations.
Perhaps we should bulldoze it all and turn El Camino Real back into Green Valley.
Green Valley - before all the failing business were built it had one business...a farm
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posted by dosten at
10:33 AM
3 Comments:
I understand the revenue implications, but Toy Garden is the only one of those stores I'll miss. I try to shop at local, independent businesses, and I'll make even more effort with the current economic climate.
Sorry, late to the party here (I didn't know about your Encinitas blog). I was only a frequent Encinitas visitor, not a resident, but retail sprawl did seem to quickly swallow up Encinitas (beginning with Wiegand Plaza). So, as Anna says, I can't really shed a tear, despite any fiscal ramifications. I would LOVE to see them bulldoze everything and return it to its natural state (and, as long as we're in Fantasyland, same goes for "North City West" (east of I-5 in Del Mar).
I grew up in Village Park/Wiegand Plaza area Encinitas in the early 80s and it was already sliding downhill into overdevelopment. Everyone has their own particular "moment" when the city seemed to betray them and go commercial. I'd say for me it was the whole "Target Greatland" development. There actually used to be mom and pop stores in Wiegand Plaza...a photo developer, a dance school, a launder, frozen yogurt...Now we have BevMo!
It's still the best city on Earth...I want to raise my future kids there.
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