Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

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Strip mall and it's history - more convoluted than I thought....

Here's a current shot taken from the south end of Main Street:

   

Main Street in the photo is actually the road above the strip mall, and it was my original intent to model the whole strip mall.  However, I reread the article I found on what is the current White Haven Market.  Turns out, the current market still occupies the same space as the ACME built in 1970, however, the Rite Aid pharmacy and Laudromat (among others) were more recent additions, and the front of the ACME was on the north face of the original building (the current front doors of the market are on the west side of the building under the green facade).  I'll try to keep your head from spinning with another photo - this time an aerial:

   

You can see the "strip mall" complex is actually three different buildings with the former ACME (now the White Haven Market) being the biggest portion toward the bottom (south end) of the photo.  Based on the article, the front doors for the ACME would have been located on the north face of the largest building.  No photos though... (yet), but knowing the terrain (sloping toward the river, I would bet that the front doors would have been located on the high side nearest Main Street.  We had an ACME in Stroudsburg at about the same time with the doors located at the left-hand corner, and I did find a picture of a similar ACME located in Wyoming Valley:

   

Looks like the rough size of the building is about 80' wide by a little more than 100' deep.  Not sure I want a building that large, but I'll look at the real estate available.  I'd bought some green siding (prominent on the strip mall facade) as a texture from Clever, but that's not going to work now, but the cinder block walls for the three other sides should.  I did grab what I remember was the typical logo from the 1970's (which would go right where the plywood is on the previous photo):

   

Based on the building site and the current photos, the store looks like it's built on a concrete slab with a precipitous dropoff on the river side of the building.  I think I may model that with a partial basement on that side of the building.  For compression purposes, I'm also going to locate the building on the edge of Main Street which is going to be fairly wide with quite a few parking spaces.