THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, August 25, 1996 TAG: 9608230358
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 22 lines
Crown American Realty Trust, the owner of Patrick Henry Mall in Newport News, may not be entirely improper in supporting Citizens to Save Endview, a group that opposes Endview Mall being planned by its competitor Mall Properties (news, Aug. 13).
Developers seem to be deliberate in choosing historic sites instead of prosaic and expendable locations. Examples are Manassas battlefield and George Washington's boyhood farm. Why keep tearing up the countryside when the market for shopping malls turns out to be oversold? After all, the ownership of lands does not really include unlimited rights, just as owning an automobile does not permit one to be an unsafe driver.
What many developers are doing to the countryside is criminal and not approved by some developers who are intelligent and reasonable.
HENRY C. PUGH
Norfolk, Aug. 16, 1996 by CNB