Fake Shop Fronts
What will those clever people think of next?
Via Kevin Slavin:
>North Tyneside high street ‘revived’ by fake shop front
“Fake businesses are to be used to lessen the impact of the recession on high streets in North Tyneside.
With 140 empty shops in the borough, council bosses think they have come up with a unique way of ensuring shopping areas remain as vibrant as possible.
The first empty shop unit to be given a makeover with a “flat pack” shop front is in Whitley Bay. (via BBC News - North Tyneside high street ‘revived’ by fake shop front)
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fake shops
This has long been a practice with mall developers. They actually go so far as to open 'real' stores to up their occupancy % in a mall. At least this was their practice in better times, now they might be taking this route. So anytime you go into a mall and notice a high percentage of calendar stores, you know they are having trouble renting space.
I also find this amusing since it essentially what I did 'virtually' when making renderings for these mall developers.
lawn painting
I'm reminded of the brief trend that hopefully peaked during the height of the foreclosure crisis: lawn painting. A Disney-approved way to fake vitality in suffering residential communities.
http://www.newser.com/story/57855/cure-for-dead-lawns-at-foreclosures-green-paint.html
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