PUT ON YOUR THINKING CAPS!!!

Viewers:
We KNOW that you are resourceful. Already SO MANY of you have proven that fact. What we need you to do now is think positive. Rather than just say "We want to Save Smalltown USA" we have to come up with ways on how to accomplish this. We need to provide our town officials with the alternative solutions.

We've heard over and over again, "retail should be in the Old Ames Plaza". We don't think that anybody would disagree with that. But the obstacle is the owner of the Plaza. Redstone has no incentive to search for renters. They even turned away Dollar General's request to first move to their building.

Does anybody know what we can do about this? Does anybody have any experience in fighting a developer giant? How can we get out of being held "hostage" in our own town?

Please PUT ON YOUR THINKING CAPS and come up with some plans for Alden (and particularly the village) and write to us. We'll share your suggestions with the town & village boards, and Economical Planning Committee.