Big Box Reuse
Julia Christensen, a graduate student at Rennselaer Polytechnic University, has been traveling around the U.S. giving presentations on how abandoned big box discount retail stores across the country are being put to alternative uses. Her site bigboxreuse.com shows how the empty shells Wal-Mart leaves behind when it moves down the street to a newer Supercenter are being put to use as medical centers, schools, libraries, apartments and churches. Christensen’s working on a book documenting her research on the changing face of small towns in America.
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