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Article: New businesses revitalizing Pittsfield
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- June 21, 2008
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PITTSFIELD - There's an intriguing aerial photo in the lobby of
Merrill Merchants Bank on Main Street that was taken in the mid-
1950s. The photo shows a vibrant downtown - cars filling every
parking space, a diverse scattering of businesses and service
companies - in other words, the heart of a community.
For decades, as malls and shopping plazas were built, downtowns
across the country emptied and became ghost towns, and the photo in
the bank represented the past, not the present.
In recent months, however, thanks to some initiative by several
local entrepreneurs and the drawing power of Renys Department Store,
Pittsfield's downtown is once again becoming a destination.
On Friday morning, ...
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