Instead of being flattened the old shop-houses were renovated and turned into bijou modern homes.
In Carmarthen the YMCA has taken over an old shop and is selling larger piece of furniture - tables and wardrobes - alongside the china and books.
Inside one of them was 38-year-old shop assistant Arturo Pacheco(ph).
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The Labour-led authority added that 1, 800 people regularly used the old shop in Hertford Street to apply for jobs and that "nearly 500" of these have been supported into work between April and August 2012.
Hotspots springing up to serve the new residents include coffee shop Nelson the Seagull, restaurants Wildebeest and Pidgin, and Save On Meats, an old butcher shop with a legendary neon sign that now houses a popular diner.
So is the record of this two-and-a-half-year-old Manhattan shop run by veterans McGarry, 62, and Bowen, 55--both written off as has-beens.
He now oversees a staff working out of an old plumbing supply shop in downtown Palo Alto.
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These two are already grinning--hoping Hillary's campaign will vault their eight-year-old privately held shop onto the national scene.
Likewise, Mark Brown and his old fashioned sweet shop on Upper Brook Street came through the downturn unscathed.
Mr. Sarkar, 34 years old, owns a shop that makes door and window frames.
Nicholas Tyers, a 43 year old fish and chip shop owner in Bridlington.
They were followed by the World Famous Old Blacksmith's Shop Centre in Gretna Green and the capital's Royal Botanic Garden.
Jemma Beagrie, from the Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop, said she wanted to keep the town independent with "local people having local jobs".
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So now your 90 year old grandmother has to shop for coverage, compare plans, and argue with the insurance company when they deny her care.
Trying to bring these voters back into the Democratic fold, Obama left the stage and hit the streets of historic Abingdon to shake hands and hobnob in an old-fashioned soda shop.
In 1958 the 23-year-old opened his own molding shop, making tools for the manufacture of eyeglass frames.
The two-year-old went missing from a shop near an Army base in Paderborn.
The Italian-run shop has an old school look, but this time the monochrome-tiled floor and Formica tables are genuinely vintage.
Matisse would surely have appreciated the palette displayed under the glass counter of the Fenocchio ice-cream shop in the old town.
Bright pinks, greens, turquoises and yellows colour the houses and shop fronts in Old San Juan, a colonial neighbourhood that dates to the 1500s.
Next, we head out to Cape Canaveral in Florida, where Swamp Works has set up shop in an old Apollo training facility.
The eight-year-old New York-based shop of 22 employees focused on building integrated branded experiences for clients, such GE Works Centre, has been working with GE since 2010.
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Peter Warrick, the 53-year-old president of an advertising shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, owns 28 Miatas and credits his passion with keeping him alive after a heart attack in 1994.
In 1993 he opened a 7, 000-square-foot wood shop in an old match factory, seeding it with money from the sale of a clothing business that had been in the family since 1907.
He wasn't old enough to legally run the shop, but that didn't stop him.
The new console looks like it has been constructed from items out of a junk shop, including an old typewriter, a telephone, pressure gauges and a Morse code machine.
The 80-year-old has been in business since 1984, but her shop could close after the Derby because her older, loyal customer base has shrunk due to illness and old age.
This second floor shop is smaller than his old space with bright green walls.
The coffee shop still looks like an old bathhouse, with wooden latticework and a distinctive, bell-shaped awning.
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