COMING AVAILABLE 84,180 SQ FT.

Spider as I was driving past Roosevelt & Elliott I notice a Sign in front of the KMart Center that says, "COMING AVAILABLE 84,180 SQ FT."  So what's up new construction  or is Kmart leaving.  Inquiring minds want to know.

Maybe the Center owner will get off their ass and spruce the place up a bit with a  face lift.  See they painted the lines in the parking lot but much more than that is needed.  .

retired co wrote: Has anyone noticed the increase in foreign merchants in the last 2 years?t seems as if everyh time we lose a business in this town people from the middle east open another little shop ( convience store/gas station). I'm not begrudging these folks for wanting a better life but how come we can't get Americans to open these small business establishments. Most all these folks live in Westchester I can't wait to see all their stores on Central Ave.

Sorry Randy--I mind.

It would appear that Middletown's Business Retention Committee needs to refocus itself onto smaller businesses especially in the retail/service industries for Retention in Middletown, instead of concentrating on the 10 biggest employers who are most likely not leaving anytime soon.  Middletown's Retail/Service industry is being decimated and Middletown seems to be indifferent or powerless to even inquire as to why and can not even maintain what Retail/Service Businesses that they have. 

You hit the nail on the head again Pacman!  I appreciate your diligence in pointing out the indifference and fuzzy thinking of the elitist bureaucrats at One Donham Plaza!

John call the City and tell them you want to move into downtown and watch how high they jump., anywhere else in the city forget it.

I live 5 min away from K-Mart and would rather drive 15 minutes each way than to go to that place. That's not the cities fault.

I am sorry to report that I called kamin Realty and they verified that K-Mart is indeed leaving.  That's a wonderful location and we should do all we can to bring businesses back to that location.        Paul nagy

K-Mart leaving??? Say it ain't so. Now, I'll have to drive to the Springboro K-Mart for my Martha Stewart designer paints and the prescriptions for the wife. That's an awfully large box store. Probably won't find a business willing to tackle that location. To lure anyone at all, might have to split the sq. footage up into smaller stores and rent to small fledgling businesses like a CPA, an office for a realtor, collection agency, call center, insurance agent, lab testing facility or for a small Tradin' Times type newspaper. Kind of a "many stores within a store" concept. Offer cheap rent to entice perhaps? Don't know. Not a business/marketing person.

Paul Nagy wrote: I am sorry to report that I called kamin Realty and they verified that K-Mart is indeed leaving.  That's a wonderful location and we should do all we can to bring businesses back to that location.        Paul nagy

With all the money that the city has received over the last year - has anyone seen any improvement at all to the city in anyway.  There seems to be a plan of what the city manager and council want this city to be - however they are not doing one thing to fix any issue.  Demolishing homes will not create more business and jobs - which is needed very quickly in this town.  We are becoming a ghost town - I am assuming we will be ranked number one very shortly if it this continues.

Bobbie they are basically creating a City of Poverty, spending Millions of Federal dollars demolishing homes, trying to refrub homes that are long past there prime.  The city is not doing anything to entice middle income tax payers into this city.  It is simply throwing up more roadblocks by spending the majority of their time dealing with HUD issues, more HUD issues and trying to preserve the employees salaries that they have downtown and nothing else.