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kleinbl00 · 3002 days ago · link · · parent · post: McAllen, TX has turned an abandoned Walmart into the largest single-story library in America.
It's been pointed out before that the rise of megachurches was directly linked with the fall of K-marts and smaller big-box stores that were crushed by the Walmart supercenters opened up elsewhere. Three of my friends are involved with a church in Bellingham that used to be a JC Penney.
user-inactivated · 3002 days ago · link ·
About 6(?) years ago a church moved into a building in an area funded by County taxpayers in San Diego that caused a ruckus over where tax exempt organizations were taking advantage of the taxpayers. I'm not sure what happened to them, and a quick googling shows nothing but the stadium nonsense in SoCal. Now they are looking at these places as areas to build more apartments and affordable housing as all the transport etc is already in place.