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Post by Outlaw85 on Oct 7, 2007 19:53:31 GMT -6
Latest rumor is that the Main Mall will be torn down and a Walgreens will be built. Anyone else heard this?
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Post by heathwaldrop on Oct 8, 2007 1:58:29 GMT -6
It has been circulating in the community for at least a couple of weeks. I'll check on it.
I'd be shocked if it ever happened but it would be a 10,000-time aesthetic improvement for that area.
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Post by Eddie Goodson on Oct 8, 2007 9:07:36 GMT -6
That is going to be one rediculously expense piece of property to buy, tear down, and rebuild on. I can't see it. The cost of tearing down that building and getting it ready to build a building on are going to be as expensive as building the building almost. You've got the surface structure that you see and a basement structure you don't see. Let alone the fact that there are going to be utility issues with the location of underground utilities right outside the back of the current building that will restrict the size of a new building. I'm not saying it won't happen, but if it does, Walgreens will be paying for that building for a long, long time.
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Post by Outlaw85 on Oct 8, 2007 9:19:22 GMT -6
You know that seems to be the way Walgreens does it. They tore the old Coke plant down in Monticello, a convenience store in Monroe on Louisville and another building in Magnolia. Doesn't seem to bother them to tear down and rebuild.
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Post by Eddie Goodson on Oct 8, 2007 18:31:38 GMT -6
You know that seems to be the way Walgreens does it. They tore the old Coke plant down in Monticello, a convenience store in Monroe on Louisville and another building in Magnolia. Doesn't seem to bother them to tear down and rebuild. That's true. I guess they figure the most desirable place in town is worth it. They will pay for it for sure. |
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Post by heathwaldrop on Oct 8, 2007 19:34:05 GMT -6
You know that seems to be the way Walgreens does it. They tore the old Coke plant down in Monticello, a convenience store in Monroe on Louisville and another building in Magnolia. Doesn't seem to bother them to tear down and rebuild. Also tore down two old fast-food restaurants in El Dorado to build a SMALLER building than what it had already, just to get on a corner lot and out of a deteriorated shopping center. |
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Post by hogdog on Oct 8, 2007 20:56:06 GMT -6
It has been circulating in the community for at least a couple of weeks. I'll check on it. I'd be shocked if it ever happened but it would be a 10,000-time aesthetic improvement for that area. If my memory is correct Heath I believe you made the same statement about At Woods coming to Crossett |
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Post by heathwaldrop on Oct 8, 2007 21:33:31 GMT -6
If my memory is correct Heath I believe you made the same statement about At Woods coming to Crossett I don't remember making that statement. I do remember saying that about Wal-Mart Supercenter. Where's the economic base in Crossett to open a Walgreen's? We've had two other pharmacies to close within the past four years, and the Supercenter has a very well-stocked pharmacy in it. Some people around here seem to think that we're living in a town with 65,000 people in it or something. |
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Post by old lion on Oct 9, 2007 5:59:10 GMT -6
Heck, we are just glad to see a Fred's coming to Hamburg.....
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Post by heathwaldrop on Oct 19, 2007 22:16:16 GMT -6
According to the Walgreen's corporate offices, no plans of opening a store in Crossett.
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Post by estbh on Oct 20, 2007 21:48:00 GMT -6
I hope they do it. It would be good to see some life on Main St.
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Post by Mr. C on Oct 21, 2007 11:03:17 GMT -6
I hope they do it. It would be good to see some life on Main St. And a Walgreens would bring a more classy look to the area than what we have now (a nice, new building, as opposed to the mall looking like it could cave any second). Also, is there still just an open space where that building was torn down forever ago? If so, something desparately needs to be built there...it makes/made the area look really bad. |
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Post by heathwaldrop on Oct 21, 2007 17:54:23 GMT -6
Looks much better as an empty lot than it ever did as a building.
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Post by complexed on Oct 22, 2007 8:04:53 GMT -6
The vacant lot is MUCH uglier than the BEAUTIFUL old 3 story Masonic Temple Building that burned so tragically 1 Friday night a few years back right after the annual Christmas in Crossett celebration. Most of us have fond memories of going into the old Bob Elliot Jewelry Store (on the ground floor) just to hear the clocks ticking! Buildings such as that and the old Rose Inn (also now gone) like the old bank building at the corner of 2nd. & Main across from Economic Development Center need to be preserved. Not made fun of.
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Post by heathwaldrop on Oct 22, 2007 14:12:09 GMT -6
I'm not making fun. The building was in a woeful state of disrepair. If not, it never would have burned in the first place.
When it first was built it might have been a nice building, but it was long past its prime.
It has been stated that it would have been better had the entire block been consumed in the blaze, and I'm not the one who said it.
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Post by Eddie Goodson on Oct 22, 2007 16:04:17 GMT -6
I have an idea for the vacant lot, the Trio building and the Spike Drugstore building. Anyone who has about $1.5 million they are willing to invest, see me and we can make the dream happen.
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Post by estbh on Oct 23, 2007 20:08:17 GMT -6
I'm not making fun. The building was in a woeful state of disrepair. If not, it never would have burned in the first place. When it first was built it might have been a nice building, but it was long past its prime. It has been stated that it would have been better had the entire block been consumed in the blaze, and I'm not the one who said it. Back when the Centenniel Committee was meeting, that building was discussed as a possibility for a national historical building. If memory serves me, Launius wasn't interested, and since he owned it, there wasn't anything else that could have been done. I understand that at one time, it had a beautiful ball room on the top floor |
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Post by heathwaldrop on Oct 23, 2007 23:17:24 GMT -6
It's just like anything else: Without the investment of private money, things won't improve.
A lot of people were in love with the Greenview Cafe, too, apparently, to hear the talk. That block also looks much better now with an empty lot on it.
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