Exit Circuit City, Enter Urban Blight Halloween Super Store

I guess it was inevitable that this would happen.  A month or two ago the abandoned and empty old storefront of Circuit City at the corner of Canoga Ave and Victory became occupied by a Halloween store.  Shoot me in the head.  Realistically, any store that doesn’t have real signage and has to indefinitely rely on vinyl banners should be outlawed, zoned out, whatever it takes.

What’s worse is it seems like these squatters have a tennacious way of sticking around forever.  There is also one of these eyesores in Canoga Park also on Canoga Ave. that has been there for far too long. This also what happened several years back when the degenerative movie theatre on the corner of Victory and Topanga went out of business, and became occupied by a similar Halloween store.  Thankfully Westfield, it seems, eventually gobbled up the property and placed a glorious Crate and Barrel there.

Speaking of that plaza and its growing list of business fatalities (Black Angus, the now torn down bank that once stood at Victory & Owensmouth, Yankee Doodle’s, and the long abandoned Chinese Restaurant) we can only hope that Westfield has plans to force out the FedEX Kinkos and Cocos and put some more modern ammenities on this parcel. This 1970s relic of a shopping plaza is a really antequated waste of bankable real estate.  It’s only conjecture, but I’m pretty sure Westfield owns this stretch of land – as they have some signage for the Westfield Topanga Mall on the property.

Sure, it might sound wrong to be optimistic about a corporate bohemoth like Westfield coming in and revitalizing an area, but honestly they seems like the only folks willing to put money into a place to make it nice.

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