{"id":61,"date":"2009-01-22T21:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2009-02-07T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:05:35","slug":"the-changing-business-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/01\/22\/business\/the-changing-business-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Business Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69\" title=\"Remodeled Walgreen's on School St, Framingham\" src=\"http:\/\/framingham.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/walgreensschoolst.gif\" alt=\"Walgreen's and the shopping plaza it's located in have undergone remodeling\" width=\"400\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/walgreensschoolst.gif 400w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/walgreensschoolst-300x163.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walgreen&#39;s and the shopping plaza it&#39;s located in at 15 School St., Framingham, have undergone remodeling.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As businesses, large, such as Linens N Things, Filene's Basement, and Circuit City, and smaller, such as Fabric Place, Green Tea II, other businesses are opening and changing.<\/p>\n<p>Walgreen's on School Street has expanded, and the entire shopping plaza is in the midst of the longest-taking facelift ever.\u00a0 Some gas stations around town have changed their names and gas suppliers.\u00a0 The Exxon on Edgell Road is now Gulf, and the former Mobil on Concord St. in Saxonville is now Riverside Gas.<\/p>\n<p>Even as businesses close and people are laid off, there are these and other indicators that there is still hope and optimism.\u00a0 While there are areas that are down, Framingham isn't out,\u00a0 as new sprouts of activity keep popping up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As businesses, large, such as Linens N Things, Filene&#8217;s Basement, and Circuit City, and smaller, such as Fabric Place, Green Tea II, other businesses are opening and changing. Walgreen&#8217;s on School Street has expanded, and the entire shopping plaza is in the midst of the longest-taking facelift ever.\u00a0 Some gas stations around town have changed their names&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2009\/01\/22\/business\/the-changing-business-landscape\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}