Abandoned Walmart is Now America’s Largest Library | WebUrbanist

This urban re-use story has been bouncing around the Internet for about a week. There is a real land use problem that revolves around "gray boxes" - former big box retailers that leave smaller footprint stores so that they can open other "super stores" with larger footprints in the same geographic market area. Many communities are left with land with acres of parking lot surrounding dark store buildings. Not sure if this particular re-use concept could be universally applied, but in this instance it worked well. Click title for link.