XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Robert Bannister   
    wrote:   
   > On 17/01/2014 4:33 pm, Chrysi Cat wrote:   
   > >   
   > > Question. If local retail (with the possible exception of restaurants)   
   > > is gone, what exactly do you expect to fill the space? A lot of those   
   > > places, even with all the commercial space gone, wouldn't work well for   
   > > residences--they might even be in the floodplain! Even if it isn't, most   
   > > areas have as much residential development now as there'd ever be demand   
   > > for from people who want to live there.   
   >   
   > You create a haven for the homeless and also for criminal gangs.   
      
   Yep, that's one of the reasons they get re-developed and re-designated.   
      
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