I don’t know why I am writing this letter because Mayor Blanton of Rock Falls won’t even consider this opinion, but here goes anyway. 

Mayor Blanton and Sandy Henrekin, executive director of the Rock Falls Community Development Corp., have already hired architects to make plans for a 10,000-foot building on the former Reliant site. Is this really necessary?

According to SVM reporter Kiran Sood in the Dec. 17 Gazette: “If you stand in the middle of First Avenue and West Second Street, you would see that only one of the four storefronts is occupied.” She continues: “What a visual. Three out of four street corners empty.”