If you want to sum up everything some people hate about the suburbs and the early days of sprawl, two words will do. Strip mall. Charmless, ugly, unadorned, surrounded by acres of baking asphalt. The ...

I’ve been thinking about strip malls again lately. They’ve been an on-again, off-again obsession of mine since the ’80s, when I started traveling and noticed that other cities didn’t seem quite so ...

MARION, Ill. (WSIL) -- A new strip mall project broke ground on Tuesday, promising to give the local community a boost of more business opportunities. Srinivas Gundala, a well-known general contractor ...

I was present at the recent December Lusby Master Plan public meeting. I replied to a public survey requesting ideas and suggestions for the town center a couple of years ago. When I heard nothing ...