Times are hard for retail outlets, and the Edgewood Towne Centre is no exception. This vast expanse of chain stores and parking lots has flanked Braddock Avenue for decades, attracting customers to its Kmart, Giant Eagle and smaller stores. But thanks to all-inclusive “box stores” like Walmart and the ubiquity of online shopping, complexes like Edgewood Towne Centre have suffered a dramatic loss of revenue.
Still, stores routinely close and re-open under different names, a cycle that mimics the death and rebirth of organic life. In a way, the Towne Centre is a study in evolution: The strongest storefronts survive, the weak die off, and the businesses in between are forced to evolve.
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