Opponents, who gathered outside council offices, say the scheme will turn the town into "one massive shopping mall".
These days, Soho is one big shopping mall, with high-end fashion well represented along West Broadway between Houston and Grand streets.
One Hong Kong mall, Metroplaza, has embraced the year by installing eight live snakes under a gold arch in a case lined with peony-blossom wallpaper.
Your customers must be reminded you exist to keep them from driving by on the way to the Big Box Retailers in the Big Mall one town over.
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Mall REITs' stats have suffered from the blowup of one prominent member, Mills Corp. (nyse: MLS - news - people ) Mills, once known as one of the best mall developers in the country, has run into problems with its giant Xanadu project under construction in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
General Growth Properties ( GGP - news - people ), one of the largest mall owners in the U.S., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in one of the largest real estate failures in the country's history.
The "Miss You Much Leslie Exhibition" at the Times Square shopping mall is one of many memorial events in his hometown.
Mills, once known as one of the best mall developers in the country, has run into problems with its giant Xanadu project under construction in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
Shopping can be done online, instead of buzzing off to the supermarket or the mall: one van delivery can do the work of many individual shoppers in their cars.
If the trend holds, say goodbye to the store-dominated mall, one where weary shoppers looking for a dining or amusement break are limited to the food court and the arcade room.
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At the Carlos III dollar-only shopping mall, one of many that have opened in Havana, windows are filled with American brands, such as Reebok, Nike and Coca-Cola, at prices unaffordable on ordinary Cuban salaries.
"We don't mind new shops but we do not want faceless pension funds to turn our city centre into one, massive shopping mall with no character and nothing in it for local people, " she said.
He has invested in two shopping-mall projects, one in the southern city of Changsha and another in the eastern city of Hefei.
Competitors in the men's and women's marathons started and finished in The Mall, completing one short and three long loops during the 26.2-mile race through central London.
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The original tree-lined mall is exactly one mile long, but as you near its western end at Wynkoop Street, continue past the construction sites around Union Station and LoDo.
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In 60 years he has entered only one (aside from a small mall in Guam).
His company recently finished a 390-unit apartment building one mile north of the National Mall and later this year plans to start on another nearby.
Then again there was always Walden Books at the Millcreek Mall -- if one of your visits happened to coincide with the erratic publishing schedule of Mondo 2000, you were in luck!
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Kudos for Mall of America, though, for taking that concept one giant step forward (hey a reserved parking space at the mall the week before Christmas is worth its weight in coupons).
One of the best buys among mall REIT stocks is Taubman Centers, which Green Street expects will get a 12.9% boost in AFFO this year, or 1.7 points better than its five-year average.
One of the best buys among mall REIT stocks is Taubman Centers, (nyse: TCO-G - news - people ) which Green Street expects will get a 12.9% boost in AFFO this year, or 1.7 points better than its five-year average.
That turns out to be especially true since the mall in question has only one customer.
The comparison pales, when one thinks that specialty stores in a mall carry a much broader or deeper assortment than a small boutique-like shop in a J.
One spectator on the route near The Mall said the race was the culmination of six weeks of wonderful sport, and that the Paralympics had "taken it up another notch".
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Australia's Westfield, one of the world's biggest mall owners, has been closing the customer-service desks at some of its 47 U.S. malls in recent years, including, recently, the one in Trumbull.
And most everyone was grinning ear to ear, except for one man who documented his frustration with the glitchy Mall television feed.
While 2 million people will attend the event, many will see it best on one of two dozen jumbo televisions placed along the Mall.
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The mall has a Western Union office, one of 31 opened last month throughout the island, to which dollars can be wired direct from the United States.
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