Under construction

Today I went to the local post office to ship an eBay sale, and as I drove the street that runs around the perimeter of the shopping center, I passed a fenced-off construction site that hadn't been there before, next to a side street out to Kempsville Road that looked oddly unfamiliar to me. I mentally filed the anomaly as a consequence of my usual unobservant behavior and/or failing memory and continued to the post office. When I left the post office, I drove back down Kempsville Road and turned back into the shopping center by the KFC.

That's when I realized why that side street looked so foreign to me: that bare construction site until very recently (probably no more than a week or two ago) had been occupied by the former Waldenbooks store that closed a little over a year ago. It made the intersection totally unrecognizable to me from that side.

It remains to be seen what they're going to build there. Sure wish it was a bookstore. **sigh**