Prevalence of small-town visitors could spark interest in small outlets, storefronts
HIGH POINT — As a much younger reporter starting out my career in journalism in the early 1990s, one of the biggest projects I got to work on was a series of articles on the redevelopment of downtown Suffolk, Virginia.
Like other downtowns, its longtime businesses had suffered from competition from larger shopping malls, namely the lure those shopping malls had for anchor tenants and consumers looking for a new type of indoor shopping experience…