CDA: Paradise Lost — Already?

A SF Chronicle columnist’s view of Coeur d’Alene and Highway 95 businesses.

About 20 traffic lights have been added in as many years, scattered down a 10-mile stretch of highway, and every one demarcates a turnoff into a huge, low-lying horribly designed strip mall, tacky and cheaply built and utterly heartless. Clearly zero planning went into any of these megashops, except to space them so obnoxiously that you have to get back in your car to drive the eighth of a mile to get to the Target to the Best Buy to the Wal-Mart to the Super Foods and back to your freakin’ sanity.

Mark Morford
S.F. Chronicle

DFO: Mark Morford is the reigning online column champ for the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. He continues to write off Coeur d’Alene as another victim of “full-blown pestilence of big-box shopping hell” in his latest column here .