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The diner on Route 4 that closed last month still haunts me
I drove past the old HoJo's on Route 4 in Concord last week and it's just a empty lot now. Three years ago that place was packed every Sunday morning after church, best eggs benedict I ever had. The waitress, Carol, knew my coffee order before I sat down, black with two sugars, no questions asked. Last month they shut down without warning, some big developer bought the land for another storage unit place. What diners have you guys seen disappear around here that you miss the most?
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noah_webb4mo ago
That line about "big developer bought the land for another storage unit place" really got under my skin lol. It's not even that they're building something useful like housing or a grocery store, it's always storage units or a car wash. I did some digging on my town's planning board site last week and found out our old diner spot was sold for literally half what the neighboring houses go for. These developers know they can sit on the land for years and flip it later, so they throw up something cheap in the meantime. It's like they're just using storage units as a placeholder until the property value jumps high enough for condos. Makes me wonder how many of these places are actually a scam to warehouse empty space instead of giving us back our community hubs.
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