If Home Depot offered your community $1 million to take their store, would your town turn them down? That’s what they did in Reading, MA,
The front page of the Daily Times Chronicle in Reading, Massachusetts has a picture of the Johnson True Value Hardware store with a caption over
The strategies written here were produced by Sprawl-Busters in 2006 at the request of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), mainly for citizen groups that were fighting Walmart. But the tips for fighting unwanted development apply to any project—whether its fighting Dollar General, an Amazon warehouse, or a Home Depot.
Big projects, or small, these BATTLEMART TIPS will help you better understand what you are up against, and how to win your battle.