On a different note, the new library (The Bank) could pick up Bay Creek Shops’ market. One possibility is to have seating by the windows, upstairs and downstairs, alternating iPad stations with seats with power outlets for visitors’ own laptops. The downstairs area could house smallish boutiques (sea glass hut, Tommy Bahama scarf outlet…) and food retailers selling entremets/noshes (Brown Dog ice cream, Coffee Shop latte, Gull Hummock wine…) – think Delta’s LaGuardia Terminal D. At the library, former Bay Creek Shops’ customers could spend the hot summer working on spreadsheets, leafing through gardening books or the fall issue of Vogue, or recovering from a figurative heat stroke with Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, people watching, and, most importantly, shopping. Consumption – even consumerism – is possible anywhere, even at the library, for the benefit of all.

The sad thing is that the shops are very attractive, but will now be more empty space in Town. The hope is that the owners will find a way to broaden the shops’ appeal so they can survive.

I would imagine, as Ms. Peterson is probably leasing, that she is closing the gallery due to the loss of the space.