My Hometown

A store location closing then reopening under a different name/company is nothing new in this "rapidly changing" economy. However, this building on the corner of Main and Airport in Lebanon stands out because it's easily changed hands more than any other commercial building in town. At least half a dozen times in the decade+ years I've lived in Lebanon, this location has been changed to a different name while the interior of the store remained the largely the same. For the longest time it just seemed like it was the same grocery store each time it "closed," to the point that I and many others would just keep calling it by its previous name for months after the change. However, the most recent time it's closed and reopened, it was changed to a furniture store, as seen above.

One of the most successful businesses in Lebanon's downtown area is thrift stores selling second-hand items. Here, an elderly couple loads some recently purchased furniture into a trailer bed hitched to their truck. 

Kristen Craven, pictured above, works as a receptionist at MBVA, a co-op set up in a recently renovated office building in downtown Lebanon. The co-op contains a wide variety of businesses ranging from a coffee shop to a hypnotherapy clinic.