Why Every Main Street Looks The Same

How Municipal Policy & Financial Incentives turned Main Street Into Chain Street

May 7, 2022

∙ Paid

A retail strip with three well known chains that could be anywhere in the US. Source: Marcus & Millichap

Walk down the Main Street of any city or town today and you might notice something off. It’s not that the roads are too wide (though they are), or that the sidewalks are t…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to

Our Built Environment

to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.