Get real.  Once built, the fields will NEVER be reclaimed.  All the crap
that goes along with Wal-Mart development -- including long-term public
investments like water and sewer lines -- guarantee it, regardless if the
box carries Wal-Mart's name or not.

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Bruce.Barrett wrote:

> Candice Brashears wrote;
>
> The WalMarts are reversible: When they are no longer deemed
> useful - the box can come down / the grass and fields replanted.
>
> True, but the economic black hole created in the downtown areas as a result
> of urban exodus to Blackboxville is far harder to replant. Lets not build
> those monsters in the first place!
>

Maura Johnson, Field Services Coordinator
Ohio Historic Preservation Office
BGSU, Jerome Library, 5th Floor
Bowling Green, OH  43403
Phone:  419-372-6935   Fax:  419-372-0155