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Crackhead wrote:
> <sjohnson1010@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ac410029.0306051940.babca32@posting.google.com...
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>>Walnut Square Mall (Dalton).  I wonder how this mall is doing in a
>>city that is largely Hispanic.
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> "Largely Hispanic"?  The longtime residents have fled the city and forgot to
> get the flag on the way out.
> 
> It's my hometown, but I would never consider living there again.  It's
> difficult to watch when your parents have saved and scrimped their whole
> lives just to be able to afford to live decently in their retirement with no
> mortgage (on top of having lived through the depression), and with a decent
> new car that they can use for the rest of their lives.  Then, across the
> street, where a $350,000 house sprang up (only to be moved out of by the new
> owners at a loss from the rapid encroachment of Latinos into the
> neighborhood), 5 families are living and splitting costs. (Whitfield County
> supposedly has zoned areas where only one family is allowed to live per
> dwelling.)  They drive current year model cars with permanent temp tags,
> wear only new clothes, buy only the freshest meats and vegetables (no frozen
> or canned stuff here) and procreate as if on a mission.  The homeowner of
> record pays very little taxes while the others send American dollars back to
> Mexico.  Our schools are being overrun with no tax dollars available for
> expansion.  Our recreational areas are ruined from extremely high traffic,
> with no funds for repair.  Cinco de Mayo and New Years are terrible places
> to be outside our homes because of fear of stray gunfire and bullets
> literally dropping from the sky.  Our mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters
> are killed, maimed, and terrorized by drunk drivers high on tequila.
> 

Dalton is done the "Beaners" won .

> Oh, yeah.  Malls.  Walnut Square to be exact...
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> They were bought by Simon also.  It is still doing well, with Sears, JC
> Penney, and Belks as anchors.  The vacancy percentage is never more than
> 10%.  I see many people there shopping, however many also go there as mall
> walkers or to people watch.  I am one of the people watchers, and I see many
> people walking around empty-handed.  Of course, this is not a good way to
> judge, as I would see only those people who came in to browse and happened
> to buy something, and browse some more with bags hanging in their fists.  I
> wouldn't see those who came to expressly buy something and leave by one of
> the store doors and not one of the mall doors.
> 
> Many of us who want different and/or higher quality items will go to Atlanta
> (Phipps, Lenox) or Tennessee, to Hamilton Place (I have no idea why, with
> outrageous 8+% TN sales tax!).
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> In Dalton, Walnut Square is not exactly thriving, but it's a good long-term
> investment by Simon.  It's one of those 30-40 year investments that makes
> more profit than expense over an extended period.  I wouldn't call it a
> dead/dying mall...far from it.
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