Sears Holdings, the 120-year old retailer (which now includes Kmart), plans to start converting its struggling and defunct department stores into data centers, Data Center Knowledge reported today. A new unit of the company, Ubiquity Critical Environments, will lead the charge.
Thanks to Walmart, specialty shops, an economic downturn and—the sweet irony—online shopping, department stores are heading toward extinction, and Sears is feeling the pain particularly hard.
— motherboard.vice.com
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This structure has had an "ominous" presence of sorts south of the freeway encircled and more defined downtown core of Los Angeles. Aside from the Olympic Auditorium and L.A. Trade Tech, this is the other piece of the triad that defines central L.A., south of the 10 freeway, and east of the 110 and USC. This area rolls up the sidewalks at night and a renaissance would be welcomed. The least populous city in California, Vernon, is in L.A. County and has a population of 112. Where these 112 people reside is a mystery, having driven through there. Whether white collar employment will also translate into living in this area will be interesting. It's a new canvas in that regard.
Clarification: Vernon CA is a few miles south of here, and thus south of downtown L.A. - 112 people at the 2010 census, and it isn't exactly small! I've been with more people living in a single building within a garden apartment complex.
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