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| A typical Dollar General store. / DG photo |
Terrace residents who stay aware of their surroundings certainly have noticed the incessant, noisy excavation activities going on across Oakwood Avenue from the entrance to the Terrace.
What's in the process of being created at the Diamond Rock Plaza shopping strip -- anchored by a marijuana dispensary with a drive-thru service -- is yet another Dollar General discount store.
Which raises the question: Do we really need yet another "dollar store" given how many we already have? Time -- and consumer activity -- will tell.
There already are Dollar General/Dollar Store/FamilyDollar locations nearby, three in Lansingburgh (two of them mere yards away from the Terrace on Northern Drive as well one as just down the road on 2nd Avenue), around the corner in Mechanicville (in the Price Chopper Plaza), as well as in Brunswick Plaza on nearby Hoosick Road and lots of other ocations in the Capital Region.
Generally speaking, Dollar General locations are well-designed and well-maintained, so we probably shouldn't worry about a tacky appearance. What remains to be seen is what the expansion of the Tom Murley-owned complex that has floated, and eventually abandoned or seen evaporate, such things as a school bus dispatching area -- roundly objected-to by numerous Terrace residents at a public hearing, a car wash, a dialysis clinic, and on and on, will do to traffic flow, safety, and travel time.
Some critics of the project point to the Town of Brunswick's penchant for approving commercial development no matter the negative impact on traffic (see the perpetually-jammed Hoosick Road corridor currently being even more jammed by major redevelopment projects), but proponents point to the expansion of commercial choices for shoppers.
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| Diamond Rock Plaza shopping strip. |
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