I closed again last night, and repeat the same schedule until Wednesday for my weekly day off. Pierce came by right as we were leaving, so we headed over to my place. It was, might be, around 50 degrees, so we decided to go on a night stroll.
We walked down 7th, headed to the Downtown strip. Half of the time we just walked on the street. All of the sidewalks are flooded with 2 inch puddles, or are still complete ice..or a hidden mixture that’s one hell of a piss off. We just talked about stuff, random, whatever came up we talked about.
We checked out that new plaza they built by the Marina and the kids playground. There isn’t any shops in there, I’m not sure if it’s even complete yet. One store is open, actually. It’s called Gallery 56. There’s paintings and art odds ‘n’ ends, but I think its just a painted picture shoppe type thing, not an actual art gallery.
We kept walking, and found another new store that popped up across from Bjorn’s. I thought it was a fancy clothes shop, but it turned out to be a fancy decor place. And that’s when I was pissed. Kenosha has always been a middle class town, factory town. My generation is part of the college generation, most of our parents didn’t have to complete school, they could just go and get a factory job.
Now Kenosha is a damned shopping mall. Downtown is just a giant coffee yuppie shop. I’m a bit disgusted by the new apartments, and those new “high class” shops. All it’s doing is raising people’s ideas of their standard of living. It’s sick. I wish something cool would go in there. Like an actual store. Not just some knick knack shop.
Downtown Pantry is closing. You’d think that a small little food shop like that would thrive with all the new housing. Some how it just isn’t. They want to build and expand downtown, but stores keep coming and going with the seasons. They need to stop expanding, they need to structure it. Make sure shops stay, make sure something actually builds to the environment there.
Ugh.
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