The culprit us the usual, lost lease!

It’s sad to come back home from a wonderful weekend with friends and old cars to hear this, another shop is closing on our favorite street. 2nd Street is but a shadow of what it was years ago, a fun little street filled with charming mom and pop shops. Even though it still has a unique feel and charm, you can see the looming chain retail stores creeping up everywhere denaturing the charm of this quaint street. In the five years alone we have lived here, we witnessed the closing of many cute little boutiques.

The culprit is the same old usual, greedy leases driving small business out, those boutiques that make up 2nd Street’s unique charm and feel. What will happen when our street will be filled with The Gap and Starbucks? Certainly not the local neighborhood feel it had once and eventually traffic will go down.

I don’t know if I can say who it is yet, but I will post it here soon.