Look What You've Done!

Congratulations to my hometown, you have officially created a masterpiece of shit. Look at that monstrosity you call the Greenwood Park Mall & Surrounding Strip Malls. What you should rename it is, "Parking Lot Pavement City"... a real waste of resources, causing more pollution and ugliness than it's worth. Not only did you create this area of hell, you've maintained a steady growth of shit straight up Madison, US31 and SR135. Next will be the crapinization of US37.. It's already starting in Martinsville, and not to forget the horrific tale of shitsville that is the I465/US37 Exit/Entrance. "Truck Stop From Hell's Firey Pit"

I just want the people who planned this wonderful "expansion" to stop and rethink exactly what the hell you thought you were doing. They called it GREENWOOD for a reason. Now we've taken what was given to us, and slapped on thousands of acres full of pavement, cement, cars, buildings, signs, restaurants and shops where you can buy nothing but CRAP! There we go, that's the future of our great little city.

There is something called "progress" which is a valuable term to know if you're planning on building a city. Progress means reserving the resources for your city, using your land wisely, creating a healthier environment for the future of your town. Instead, what do you do? You keep paving, you keep sprawling, you keep creating parking lot, after parking lot, AFTER PARKING LOT, AFTER PARKING LOT!!!!! over the great green sprawl that used to inhabit the land we now sadly call Greenwood.

What's crazy is that my house was built on a previous corn field. I know because I watched the neighborhood grow, and watched the surrounding cornfield get swallowed up by neighborhoods. But then I look back on it, and think about the families and people that live in that area, and I think how much room they have between each other. Greenwood is nothing but a sprawling event in progress. There has to be a better way to conserve a city. Just imagine if Indianapolis had progressed correctly, and didn't sprawl. Greenwood would be the outskirts of a bustling, compact, resourceful city. Instead we have monuments of pavement called The Greenwood Park Mall.

So long to the green wood. So long...