Tree Dollar Bill
Dollar stores have to be the most successful American businesses over the past decade or so and finding one abandoned is rare indeed. Leave it to Flickr user and urban decay photo-documentarian RetailByRyan95 to not only discover a dead dollar store but provide its back-story. It seems this Dollar Tree location in Hampton, VA is only empty because the store’s moving to larger accommodations. The latter is thoughtfully included c/o RetailByRyan95 in the last image.
Hold The Parma-san
Flickr user Nicholas Eckhart picked an especially gray and dreary day in early February of 2014 to capture the equally miserable state of an abandoned Dollar Tree store in Parma, Ohio. We’re not sure if this store will re-open under another name or succumb to the wrecker’s ball along with the rest of its parent mall. We’d bet on the latter option – if this store deteriorates any further it’s liable to collapse on its own.
Change From A (Family) Dollar
Not all closed and/or abandoned dollar stores come to an unhappy end, and a former Family Dollar store in Pittsburgh’s downtrodden Homewood neighborhood is one that’s broken the mold. It seems Family Dollar never officially opened the store in the 7200 block of Frankstown Avenue, abandoning the near-complete building in 2007. Thanks to Dollar Bank’s donation of the $2 million building plus additional funding from a variety of private and public sources, the House of Manna Faith Community center has opened to serve a wealth of benefits to the neighborhood… instead of taking their dollars, one by one.
