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Nothing says sensational journalism like a loose link between two ideas where the second idea tugs at your heart and plays on popular opinion. 
You could make such a link by one day showing a beloved movie theatre at risk of being re-purposed and by then following it with a rather poorly developed connection
to a re-purposed property that now holds the most emotion evoking sign of cultural conformity: a Starbucks.  The implied, rather elementary thought to be provoked here is: you don’t want your beloved theater to be come a Starbucks do you? If not, you better go out there and do something. 
If I were to be a sensational daily-photo writer I would do something like that. 

Actually…

This Starbucks is part of a re-purposed property, the Mount Washington Mill, in Baltimore.   However, its about as far from the Senator issue as it could be.  This is one of the success stories, perhaps even one of the early success stories, of attempts to redevelop part of Baltimore’s expansive unused industrial space.  There is a clear difference. That is: there are plenty of unused warehouses, and many of them could easily serve another purpose.  Re-Purposing can absolutely be a good thing.  It’s just a matter of context.
 

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