People + Places = Community

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Posted by Nancy Oates on December 3, 2018

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  1. Terri

     /  December 3, 2018

    Joe Mayes listed continuity and memory as his first two reasons for why old places matter. My thought while listening to him went to the ludicrous “Blue Hill” name along with the renaming of the mall and how those marketing ploys disrupt continuity and moves everything about eastern Chapel Hill away from the memories of thousands of residents, past and present. Those areas will always be Ephesus-Fordham and University Mall to me.

  2. David Schwartz

     /  December 3, 2018

    A representative for the corporation that bought the Whole Foods shopping center on Elliot exemplified the devaluing of the past and indifference to the importance of continuity and memory when he dismissively referred to the long-standing small businesses he was forcing out as “legacy stuff.”

  3. Deborah Fulghieri

     /  December 7, 2018

    May I add the renaming of all the apartment communities as they are bought and sold by large entities. Who can feel connected?

    My pet peeve: name-changes that institute “at” in the name, like “The Villas at Fordham Estates.” Apparently, this particular preposition justifies a 20% hike in rents. The article “The” adds another 8%.