Walgreens open, building already up for sale for $5.1 million

That went well, not! First, they build it so that the parking lot and fence doesn't entice customers to come into the store. Then, they take an inordinate amount of time to actually open the doors. And now the building is already up for sale. Wow, just wow.

The building being up for sale doesn't mean Walgreens is leaving. They are a tenant. I'm not sure what Walgreen's Corporate policy is but it's probably similar to the Dollar General Corporation. They don't own any of the buildings they're in - they rent the space.

A modern building is going to look different than one which is hundreds of years old just as a modern business is going to provide a parking lot. In this case the neighboring historic buildings are niceties but are largely unproductive economically and the overall trend is toward disrepair and vacancy of those. Nineteenth-century storefronts just don't jive with the way most business is done today. Certainly the new developer could have done more to meld with his immediate environment, yet it's that environment which probably must update in order to restore its commercial relevance - the developer just had the business sense and capital to show the way. And although we can make statements such as "the fence is problematic," those statements are opinion. Regardless of whatever merit they might have, I see nothing egregious enough here to trump what's probably the single-most important opinion: the landowner's. To me, it seems like when new business clusters just outside of city/village limits, it's characterized by certain folks as a parasitic siphon. Yet when it integrates into the city/village, it's treated by those same folks like an intruder. Sure we can have planning meetings every week in anticipation of that great renaissance which will inject new roofs, electric, plumbing and tenants into "main street". But I for one suspect that we just might be a bit off balance with this notion of public space at the expense of private property, and also that we might be relying too heavily on government planning to the exclusion of entrepreneurship.

That corner looks lot better now then it has in years,i see nothing wrong with Walgreens,it looks very nice now, Leroy stop wining.should be lucky any one wants to come to the village.If i was walmart i tell the town of leroy to shove it and go some where else.