Business & Tech
Pawn Shop: Yes or No? You Decide
Before the Planning Commission discusses the matter again tonight, here is your chance to sound off on Exchange Street's request to open a large pawn shop in the vacated Ultimate Electronics building?
Ultimate Electronics, despite doing well locally, had a short-lived existence in Greenfield, lasting only a few months.
The building the company vacated is one of the most visible in all of Greenfield, with thousands of people driving past it daily on I-894, South 76th Street and even Layton Avenue.
So, what should fill the building now? Greenfield's Planning Commission will revisit that discussion when it considers the request of the owners of , a large pawn shop, to move in at a meeting at 6:30 p.m. tonight at City Hall.
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Greenfield Police Chief Frank Springob has said he's not in favor of the request because of a potential strain the selling of stolen goods at the store would put on his department, but how long can the city afford to leave the giant store sit unoccupied?
You be the judge. Yes or no to the pawn shop? And if no, what would you like to see there? Perfect world, no strings attached ... what would be the "ultimate" business in this prime location?
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