There were once three to five optical centers downtown. D.O.C was in the Capital Park area. Co-op Optical was in the Penobscot Building on Griswold. Heritage Optical was on Lafayette and Chene in the shopoping center. The owner of Bagley Optical had told me a couple of months ago that the city has a contract with Heritage Optical to be the only opical store downtown. I don't know how true that is. It would be foolish of the city to make such a contract blocking competition. Heritage is a good place to go for glasses. I would love to see American Best, Lens Crafters, or some other optical store to open on Merchants Row