# America’s Main Street Revival Goes Into Reverse, Cutting a Small-Town Lifeline

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/americas-main-street-revival-goes-into-reverse-cutting-a-small-town-lifeline/
- Published: 2020-10-06T09:15:27-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Kim Redeker talked with a customer from behind the counter at her sweets shop, The Sweet Granada. Katie Currid for The Wall Street Journal. Article by Ruth Simon – The Wall Street Journal. Editor’s note: This article has been reprinted with permission as it appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Kim Redeker opened The Sweet Granada chocolate shop in Emporia, Kan., in 2004, in a storefront that had been vacant for years. She was an early foot soldier in a push to revitalize Emporia’s downtown. Other specialty shops, restaurants and bars popped up — the Bourbon Cowboy bar, a bike shop called Gravel City Adventure & Supply Co., Dynamic Discs for disc golf. By early 2020, the vacancy rate on Emporia’s Main Street corridor had dropped below 10%, compared with about 40% in 1991. […] Click here to view original web page at www.emporiagazette.com