Neighbors Reject Developer’s Hush Money For Lowe’s
Not everything is for sale. That’s a hard lesson for developers to learn, but for some people a 166,000 s.f. Lowe’s store in their backyards
Not everything is for sale. That’s a hard lesson for developers to learn, but for some people a 166,000 s.f. Lowe’s store in their backyards
All it takes is the smell of a big box store to get local citizens upset. Here’s a brief report filed from Paramus, New Jersey:
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