In barely 12 years, Mr. Musk has transformed SpaceX from a tiny, little-known startup with offices close to a strip mall into a world-class aerospace company that made history in late 2010 by sending the first commercially owned and operated spacecraft into orbit.
At Hunter's Haven, a strip-mall gun shop in the farming community of Rolesville, N.
Jeffrey Schilling, 24, was strolling with his Filipino Muslim wife of five months, Ivy Osani, inside a mini-mall in the southern Philippine town of Zamboanga on the morning of Aug. 28.
JCPenney treated analysts to a tour of a remodeled store last week, showing how the chain means to reinvent its stores into a mini-mall of boutique shops with specialty and exclusive merchandise.
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Penny (nyse: JCP - news - people ), a first-time sponsor, has co-sponsored a national mall tour with the network, and Acuvue will air the most memorable moments from past show performances.
Along one of the main roads, a sparkling mega-mall gleams in the sunlight.
Opposite is the Peak Galleria, a three-storey mall of shops and restaurants.
Aeropostale, Inc. is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting fourteen to seventeen year-old young women and men.
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And at The Oaks, originally a 1970s-era mall in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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This Friday the company will open its first brick and mortar Spanx store at Tysons Corner Center, a high-end mall in McLean, Va.
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Finish Line (FINL) : Based in Indianapolis, Finish Line is a mall-based retailer that sells athletic and casual footwear, as well as apparel and accessories.
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Aeropostale is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, principally targeting fourteen to seventeen year-old young women and men (talk about a small target).
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This company operates as a mall-based specialty retailer in the U.S. It operates Finish Line stores that offer performance and athletic casual footwear, apparel and accessories for men, women and kids.
This migration from a mall-based operator into a neighborhood center REIT was perhaps the most distinguishable initiative in which the REIT began to exploit its differentiated investment strategy of focusing on necessity retail properties.
All in all, though, turning a sheep pasture into an income-producing mall was a winner for Haight.
An ambitious project that sums up GGP's vision is a massive redevelopment of the Natick Mall, a 40-year-old shopping center in suburban Boston.
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Many of us know The Sharper Image best as a purveyor of massaging lounge chairs (which makes their stores a must-stop location in the mall), a chronic pusher of ozone generators, and as a perennial favorite in SkyMall catalogs as we bide our time on the redeye.
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After that, it can't compete with newer, fresher hotels unless its renovated at a cost approaching its replacement cost (which isn't really worth doing unless it's in a really high-value location, near a major mall, hospital, or other serious demand generator).
Lees goal is to build what he calls a high-end virtual mall.
On its differentiation strategy, Rakuten positioned itself as a virtual shopping mall, based on a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model.
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Just as e-commerce brought a virtual shopping mall of products and services into every American living room, e-work can give any company, small or large, access to virtually any skill set they need.
What these towns fear most is the fate that befell Dudley, a Midlands town, whose centre was reduced instantly to near-derelict status when a big mall opened nearby.
After a 15-minute drive, they arrive at a shopping mall with a larger bottle store.
"When I was a new mom, I was a little concerned because I thought it was a germfest, " says Jill Vived, a 37-year-old mother of a 3-year-old daughter playing at the Cherry Creek mall.
This is what Christmas should be -- a holiday free of mall Muzak and the frantic need to lay your hands on the superstore's last Tickle Me Xbox.
Some shoppers visit a mall or big-box location to check out merchandise and then find lower prices on the Web, sometimes while using smartphones right in the store's aisles.
Ever since Truett Cathy opened the first Chick-fil-A Restaurant at a mall in suburban Atlanta in 1967, the company has made no secret of its dedication to Christian values.
There will be an international school (already half-built), a hospital, museums, a convention center, a golf course overseen by Jack Nicklaus, a giant mall designed by Daniel Libeskind and a 65-story office tower.
He says there is "soft data" in the form of surveys and interviews that suggests buildings that adhere to feng shui principles make their occupants happier -- be it a shopping mall, office block or a hospital.
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