i found it really interesting thread here from a journalist named stacy mitchell. even though her name is stacy. she's not related to me. but it turns out the big box stores or an even worse deal for cities and towns worse than anyone. even their opponents once thought. so in the eighty's and ninety's, the way they got around local regulations and got cities and towns to embrace them, was that they said you would have a huge tax revenue come in. well, now that the data is in all these decades later, they took all the incentives. they took the money to build the infrastructure, to build the building, to build the, the access roads, to that they took the city and town money for that. but the bottom line was actually another story max, there are 2 big costs. big box stores are expensive in terms of the public services . they require mainly police and road costs. and 2nd, big box stores cause the value of downtown and other commercial buildings to drop a few years after a walmart or a lowe's opened. the end result for the cities finances might be breakeven or worse when