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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by fixxer on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @01:29PM (#9924024)
> different kinds of commercial space.

And different uses for existing space. I'm not a big believer in any economic theory, but I see supply-side drivers abound. Case in point, there are so many vacant ex-Dominick's you can rent/buy for a song.

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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @02:27PM (#9924564)
While those ex-Dominicks buildings are for lease ("rent/buy for a song"), I have yet to see anyone acquire them at their old Bartlett, Schaumburg, or Algonquin locations.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by bunderbunder on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @03:28PM (#9925043)
Head up to Milwaukee and you'll see plenty of old Kohl's supermarkets that have all been sitting vacant ever since the chain shut down over a decade ago.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by burger_moon on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @07:12PM (#9926563)
The grocery stores were vacant for a few years but I can't think of any since I left Milwaukee last year that were still dormant. Office Max, Joanne Fabrics, those types of retail took over most of them that weren't leveled.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by will_work4tears on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:44PM (#9925660)
Oh wow, did all of your Milwaukee's Kohl's shut down? We have them here (Puget Sound area) still, and when we left Missouri in 2008 they were still there doing fine.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by hnal943 on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @05:31PM (#9925969)
Kohl's Grocery Stores (defunct) is different than the department store chain, which incidentally is headquartered in the Milwaukee suburbs.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by toomuchtodo on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:02PM (#9926185)
And the only reason Kohl's the department store chain still has its HQ in Wisconsin is due to extremely generous tax breaks from Scott Walker.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by bunderbunder on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:51PM (#9926440)
Not entirely; they were both run by the same parent company.
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