I’m investigating the Fayette Mall, It has really helped Lexington, Kentucky modernize and grow into a major city in the Bluegrass Region. Being from Frankfort, I would always come to Lexington a lot. We would come to go shopping because of the large selection of stores. Fayette Mall was the main one. Everyone from Frankfort would go to the Fayette mall to buy school cloths and stuff for school dances. After doing a few minutes of research I’ve found out quite a bit about the place. It was built on a 2 lane gravel road back in the early 1970’s. Everyone at the time complained that no one would ever go out there to go to the mall and shop but now its became a huge part of town. A lot of other shopping centers have centered there selves around the mall. There are many perspectives that I can talk about in this paper because there was a lot of conflict caused by tearing down farm land to build a huge building, also there a lot of different opinions about the property as of today about it causing “mom and pop” shops to close. I’m going to interview members of the community and ask them what they think of the existence of the mall and if they think it hurts or helps the community here in Lexington, Kentucky. My goal is to find out more about the history of the Fayette mall and how it has helped mold Lexington in to the great city it is today.
info on the mall-
wikipedia
Fayette Mall website-
Fayette Mall
Monday, October 6, 2008
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Posted by Josh Owens at 11:24 PM
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Cool blog layout! I love the slideshow. It sounds like you have a good idea of what you want to explore, and your questions re: how does the mall benefit and not benefit the community of Lexington are right on track. Note that you won't be choosing one answer over the other; you are going to explore how BOTH statements are true, and draw some insights from that. I look forward to reading more!
Get going on your research!
Oh, and by the way, please make those links into actual working links by using the "link" button when composing your blog. You can go back and edit to do so. You could also put those links on one of the sidebars by adding a "link list" gadget.
Josh,
Things seem to be going pretty well with your research. I like the conflict that you've introduced with the buying up of farmland for the mall and the struggles that mom and pop businesses have competing with the mall. Another conflict that might help ya out could be the strain the mall might put on local designer creativity or maybe the mall is supportive of local designers trying to make their way, I really have no idea. You're research looks like it's going very well. Keep up the work!
lucas
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