In the previous post, I mentioned Alamance Crossing, the new shopping center in Burlington, NC finished in 2007.  I found a few statistics that are a little eye-opening.  The shopping center is 855,000 square feet(http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2007/07/30/story8.html?ana=from_rss) with 2,700 parking spots for 70 stores.  A plus side of Alamance Crossing is that instead of wasting gas driving to Greensboro, Chapel Hill, Durham, or Raleigh, people are now shopping near home.  However the down side is that the shopping center covers over 145 acres of land that use to be grasslands (http://cblproperties.com/pag.nsf/ByAlphaAllInfoforWebNew/Alamance+Crossing?opendocument).

Claire