90% of the time it has been a bank here! How many banks do we need?? And they are not always branches of banks we already have, they are brand new never heard of banks! Seems very dumb to me and a waste of space! If it is a strip mall, there are atleast 3 cell phone places going into it! Seriously how many banks and cell phone stores do you need??? I used to get so excited about seeing new buildings, but now it's sad to see them cut down all the trees to put up a bank!

Well, some of the polititions in this town have really been having some serious brain farts. I guess they can't figure out a "worthwhile" way to spend tax payers money. They now think they are going to revitalize downtown by building a ball park downtown. We already "have" a ball park in a lot more accessable place than downtown. And it has plenty of parking.
Downtown now is nothing but attorny's offices and legel offices and paid parking lots.
All retail have moved out of downtown area many years ago. And as far as I'm concerned, they should stay where they are now. They have accessable parking and easy to get in and out of.

If retail were to return to downtown people would have to park in paid parking lots and walk for blocks to get to their destination. Taking a bus downtown is not fesible for most residents because most residential areas are not serviced by busses.
The whole thing is nonsense, replacing something we already have that is not that old.

Banks here would make much more sense than what is proposed here.

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Restaurants and churches, seems like. Lots of banks but not the one we have an account at... don't need the branch nearby bad enough to open a new one lol

Condos Condos and more Condos...residential and commercial. We live in a beach community and soon there will be no ocean breeze because the 3 blocks just west of the ocean will be solid condos and hotels. Sure wish we had a 3 story restriction like a neighboring city!

Houses, houses and more houses! It is incredible the amount of new homes that have gone up since I moved here in 1990. Other than that, they have only put up one gas station since 1990? Across the river in PA we have gotten, Kmart, Lowes, Home Deopt, Staples, Walmart, none of which were here 17 years ago.

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They have gone bank crazy here as well!

out here its nail shops dang do that many wonen get fake nails. also tanning places seems like thats all i ever see i swear in the little town of mustang oklahoma there must be 12 nail shops maybe even more and about 8 places to tan.

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We are getting a Kohl's and a new credit union.

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Yep, same here. DH and I were just talking about this last night. We had to go into town for a meeting, and I noticed a new building being started. I said it'll probably be another bank. There is no sign telling what it is, but I can almost guarantee it'll be one. I swear we have 10 banks in a 1 mile radius. Come on, is that really necessary??? There is one corner with 3 banks alone. And none of them are MY bank!

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We are getting banks and storage units.

In my city, they are in the process of tearing down a low-income apartment complex to make way for a multi-million dollar hotel.

Why someone would want to build a multi-million dollar hotel in my city (population 17,000) is beyond my understanding?

And where the hotel is going to be, there is not a whole heckuva lot of parking spots. And it is right downtown, across from a grocery store.

Whatever.

The only thing I can think of is that we are the biggest city on the way to the beach (I live about 45 minutes from the coast) and they are hoping tourists will want to stop at the hotel or something.

A new Staduim for whatever team wants one!

Gov of PA just announced instead of reducing our property/schooltaxes we are spening an obscene amount of money to keep a hockey team in state.... They demanded a new staduim so they are getting one....so much for gambling here helping the little guy!

The building now being built in our small town is another car parts store.
This will make 4.
I don't understand it!!!

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Too many banks, retirement homes (I swear at least 4 went up within 10 minutes of each other, the huge 4 floor ones too), cell phone stores and nail salons. We need more fast foods restaurants! Not many to choose from over here.

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Right now we have a credit union and a new restaurant being built in our area. I'm excited because it's a branch of my credit union so I'll be able to drop off wrapped coins etc. w/out having to bug DH to do it.

ANOTHER Mexican restauarant! I live in a town of about 20,000 people and the 5th Mexican restaurant jsut recently opened! And I agree with the bank thing 0- just how many can one town use. We have 3 branches of the bank I use within 4 miles of each other - convenient yes, but come on.

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In my area its Walgreens everywhere I go I see a new Walgreens being built. The other day we were driving around 15 mins from our home and I counted 4 new ones going up.

We may have you all beat here in NW AZ. We live rurally and we are now getting things that are either over run in town or have been zoned against. So the list of business' in the last year are, 2 dollar stores, one smoke shop, one adult emporium superstore, one payday loan co. and a hock the title to your car place.
You can't imagine how it grates on me to have to give directions to my house by saying" turn left off the highway at the HUGE adult bookstore." But the dadgum thing dwarfs everything else is site so it is the most noticeable.

I was sitting here thinking...what has been built in this small town recently...2 MAJOR THINGS!! A new school...this is the first year for the kids to be in the new elementary school!! And right now, they are working on the new hospital!! The last store built was about 5 yrs ago and it was a gas station with a McDonalds...

chain restaurants (not fast food but stuff like Cheesecake Factory, Houlihans, Fridays etc), housewares and bedding type stores, cell phone stores, and jewelry stores around here

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ours is banks and beauty salons

Around here it is Walgreens or CVS...

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We get a new pizza shop every month.Our ads and mail are flooded with offers and coupons for pizza.For every pizza place that goes outa business,there are 2 more in the making.