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Visions For Vacancies: The Old Skyland Checkers Drive-thru

Looks like this spot should also be placed under our Patch Watch.


Skyland Shopping Center has been around for decades. I read comic books on the newsstand in a corner pharmacy, where Alpha Graphics (formerly known as Action Printing) now sits. For me, walking into Advance Auto Parts is a reminder that the place used to be a Colonial grocery store (anyone remember that?)

Across the street from Skyland Shopping Center stands a former Checkers drive-thru restaurant. Now, its vacant and in bad need of maintenance. It sits at the intersection of Skyland Drive and Drew Valley Road, and near and s, site of a .

So rather than ask our weekly question of, "What do you think should go here?," this week, we're asking, "How can this location be saved?"

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