It will create major ingress and egress headaches. It will change forever the quaint, small-town character for which Davis is known. Anyone in the book trade knows the devastation to independent bookstores being caused by oligopolistic book superstores like Borders. Borders success virtually relies on crippling its competition. It does so behind pretenses of public concern and service.
Borders is in the primary business of building stores to demonstrate growth to stockholders.
To most of us in the book trade, books represent ideas, creativity and even nobility. To Borders, they simply represent product. I m no fan of Borders Books, or other predatory book superstores. I don t like the ugly image they give to American business. I like even less the Davis government s official willingness to sacrifice existing independent businesses and the town s unique downtown character for a shot at tax money from outside book megastores The City of Davis has traded in its anti-big business reputation for one of being hostile to small business and its residents.