Empire Boulevard gets ANOTHER storage facility

RANT OF THE DAY! I was coming home the other night and snagged this rendering of what is coming to the NE corner of Bedford and Empire (155 Empire - the former gas station). ANOTHER storage facility. ANOTHER one. So we will have four/five in a 3 block swath at this point?! This DEPRESSES me. The last thing this stretch of Empire needs is another big box storage complex. And to think this was one of the last gas stations in the area. Storage facilities employ very few people, they provide housing for no one of any income level, they provide a service that benefits VERY few people in the neighborhood and the more that go up the less likely it is that Empire Boulevard can become a prime mixed use retail and residential hub because other businesses won't want to come in if this is how Empire is being developed. Don't get me wrong - I am a capitalist at heart and I can't tell someone else what to do with property they have rightly purchased. But there is also a side of me that wants to start a petition and go to every city meeting that has anything to do with this stretch of Empire and scream and protest and tell the city to step in before it's too late and the boulevard becomes a wasteland of concrete mediocrity and fast food. Empire Boulevard deserves better that this!