That Home Depot Design Center that’s closing at the Metropolitan development near uptown? The graphic above probably explains all. It gives some international context on retail in America. (Courtesy of James Howard Kunstler, via Andres Duany, via Brenda who works at the Duany Plater-Zyberk office in Charlotte). If you can’t read the fine print, the information is from “Shopping Centers Today.”
And why do I fear there would be a similarly configured chart of “credit card debt per capita” or even “high-fructose corn syrup consumption per person”?
OK, back to work. Be sure to read tomorrow’s Viewpoint Page in the Observer. I can’t reveal yet what will be on it but it will have excellently written headlines. And a sublime Buzz. I hope.