So Long, Weird Tobacco Shop on York
When we first moved to town, t here was an Anderson's bookstore right in the Elmhurst City Centre . For real. Then they closed down, scurried back to Downtown Naperville and a weird hookah place opened up in the same location just north of Francesca's on York. Today? That tobacco/hookah place is now closed and gone with the windows paper'd over and a 'for lease' sign up in front. We lose another retailer and the associated sales tax, but we get a brand-new opportunity for something great. I would think that parking is one of the tough parts with this location, but with the new apartment buildings gaining occupancy just north of this, there should be some demand for the space, right? But then again, right across the street from this is that other newly renovated set of storefronts ( where the old Salt Creek Pottery was located on the east side of York, just south of City Hall) that are all totally vacant, too. Perhaps, retail isn't in the E...