Protecting Historic Buildings From Chain Drugstores
The content that follows was originally published on the Institute for Local Self-Reliance website at http://www.ilsr.org/protecting-historic-buildings-chain-drugstores/Several years ago the major drugstore chains—CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, and Eckerd—lost interest in strip malls and began to focus their expansion plans on prominent downtown intersections. As Walgreens CEO Daniel Jorndt told the New York Times, the chain’s preferred location these days is "the corner of Main and Main."
Often, of course, these intersections are occupied by some of the community’s oldest and most significant buildings.
