New York Times: 8-page spread showing a struggling Main Street in America
The Times ran a massive 8-page section of Wilkes-Barre, PA’s downtown. The insert, one continuous piece (4-full pages each side), showed a Main Street in flux. Even with rent averaging $9/square foot, many stores are teetering on survival.
The only entities that seem to be growing in the area are universities and government agencies.
Trivia: Planters Peanuts was started here and used to have its office on this strip.