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Friday, February 28, 2014

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Unfortunately, the joke’s ultimately on us, or at least our local governments. The big box development model — build on cheap land on the edge of the community with taxpayers subsidizing your hard infrastructure/transportation costs, tilting the competitive landscape in your favor in the process — is designed to be transitory. These buildings are, unlike the miles of public pipe and asphalt that serve them, quite disposable…
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