Main Street America and the Revival of Downtown

Downtown Falls City, Nebraska

Downtowns are enjoying a renaissance as the malls across suburban America shrivel up and get bulldozed by the dozens. It wasn’t so many years ago the big legacy department stores like Sears and Wards fled downtowns for the malls. Now those stores are no more—replaced in turn by Amazon and its online copycats—while the authenticity […]

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Streetscape Spearfish

When I’m motoring along I-90 I try to stop over at Spearfish, on the north side of South Dakota’s Black Hills.  It’s a nice small town where the modern motorist’s amenities haven’t managed to cannibalize the historic downtown Main Street. Recently Main Street got a rebuild and the community got streetscaping to go along with […]

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