What Other Towns Have Done With Their Closed Post Offices

Back to the original premise of this thread, the ex-post office in my current town.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.976839,-105.130923,3a,75y,219.18h,78.18t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s7F1CHG7stMbfZVIqE7sszw!2e0

It's a Pizza/Tap House with a neighboring ice-cream joint. Probably the most bustling and profitable place in town, and it's a pretty happening town.

I think that's great, but the question seems to be, do you have to repurpose a post office building in order to have a successful pizza/tap house?

Seems to me that for every example of something successfully repurposed from a post office, you can find 1,000 examples of something great that never was a post office.

Since I don't live in MWD anymore I don't have any skin in the game and don't really have any interested in it going either way. I just thought I share another successful conversion since it's local to me. But to your point, other buildings or new development could be just as good for this.

I believe strongly that a direct connection to the underpass leading to the park visible to and directly connected to Maplewood Ave should be a critical aspect for the design of whatever building is to stay or rise.

It will connect the Village to our greatest park and will in part ensure the Village remains a Village.

No one on the reuse the PO site has offered a single conceptual idea of how that can be accomplished with an adaptive reuse of the existing building.