Posted on 3 November 2015

I live in the same neighbourhood I grew up in. A few blocks away from both my childhood home and current home, there is a small business plaza.
When I was a kid it had ((all of these are partial lists, based on memory)) :

• a convenience store
• a pub
• a bakery
• a deli
• a pizza place
• a dentist

The bakery, deli, dentist, and pub have all shut down.
Some of the businesses that have opened and subsequently shut in the intervening years include:

• a coffee shop
• two video stores
• a craft supply store
• a women’s-only gym
• a laundromat
• a Chinese restaurant

Today it has:

• a liquor store
• a new dentist
• a different Chinese restaurant
• two pharmacies

Only the pizza place, as far as I know, is under the same ownership. The convenience store is also still there, but it has changed hands once or twice.
I feel like there’s some sort of story about demographic and cultural shifts in there.

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