Greater Danbury Area Businesses We'd Love to See Get Revisited

I have a fascination with shuttered doors, small and large complexes that were once teaming with life and activity.

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There is something eerie and attractive about a place that was made for people and ends up locked and vacant. That said, the devastation caused by empty structures, large and small, is never a good sign for the local economy.

Danbury and its surrounding cities and towns endured a tough time during the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses in the region suffered. Some hung in and remain today and others are just a memory.

Back in May, I wrote an article about the return of FYE to the Danbury Fair, and ever since I've wondered what other businesses could return? Who would survive? Who would thrive and what stores do people miss?

11 Greater-Danbury Area Businesses We'd Love to See Get Revisited

We asked the I-95 Ethan and Lou Morning Show Listeners to share with us businesses they would gladly welcome back to the Greater-Danbury area. Here are 11 Greater-Danbury Area Businesses We'd Love to See Get Revisited.

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In this day and age, mental health treatment is serious business and in most cases, patients are treated with care and respect. This was not always the case in the U.S. and hospitals dedicated to the "mentally ill" became prisons that regularly conducted torture. America is now littered with shuttered hospitals decaying from the inside and the outside. Many believe these places still contain the dark energy left behind by the gruesome acts of the past. One of these places in Norwich State Hospital.

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