What If Suburbia Still Looked Like This?

A close look at an ordinary piece of "old suburbia"

A couple of weeks ago, I drove out to the Ballston area of Arlington County, Virginia, to check out an old Safeway supermarket. A pretty standard workday for me. I’d heard that they were planning a major interior renovation, and so I wanted to see what it looked like in its older incarnation. (I’d seen this bit of local news from a fellow who runs a pro…