It was an impressive decade, but nothing exceptional compared to the additional 13, 500 stores that have opened since the 2000.
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But the way is peppered with scores of independently owned shops and small businesses, many of them opened since the hurricane.
Fourteen private banks, all of which are subsidiaries of Arab banks, have opened since Syria's centrally planned economy started to creak open in 2000.
When personal data is easily swapped and shared on the network, a couple of keystrokes gets you, say, a United reservation, frequent-flier number included, plus the kind of rental car you like and your hotel reservation--even listings of the movies or restaurants that have opened since your last visit.
"My eyes have been opened ever since by the extent of the stigma, " he says.
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Opened last December, Acqualina marks the debut of ESPA-branded spas in the U.S. (11 ESPAs have opened internationally since 1993).
When his book first appeared North America was home to scores of small breweries that opened only since 1980, not hundreds (or eventually more than 1, 500).
Libya's relations with Western countries have opened up since 2003, when Mr Gaddafi renounced international terrorism and efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, ending decades of isolation.
It has since opened small, temporary shops in New York, plus its highly profitable SoHo location.
Many of the shops that have been opened will stay since there due to contractual commitments that cannot be broken.
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Parmatown mall, opened in 1962, had struggled since the SouthPark Mall opened 10 miles away in Strongville, Ohio, in the 1990s.
It comes as figures released by bosses at Eagles Meadow show it had the biggest number of visitors last year since opened in 2008.
Now her company, The Soft Serve Fruit Company, has since opened a flagship store near Union Square and a pop up store in the Hamptons.
The dozen franchises that have opened new stadiums since 2000 (the Marlins will be the 13th next season) have grown revenues by a cumulative billion dollars over that span.
He points to the 900 schools that have opened in Sweden since similar reforms in 1992, and reckons that 200, 000 new school places could quickly become available in England.
Twenty-three U.S. cities have opened rail systems since 1981.
The company has since opened 23 standalone Onitsuka Tiger boutiques in Japan, as well as in Paris, Berlin, London and Seoul, and it collaborates with fashion luminaries like Issey Miyake on sneaker designs.
Flambards in Helston has been run by the Kingsford-Hale family since it opened in 1976.
And he'd yet to find international insurance since he opened the hotel last February.
Since it opened to the public in March, it has had more than 20, 000 visitors.
Lee Kun-Hee's wife, Ra Hee Hong Lee, has been the museum's director-general since it opened.
Cat Haven's founder, Dale Anderson, said the facility has been "incident-free" since it opened in 1998.
On-demand publisher Lulu.com has churned out 236, 000 paperbacks since it opened in 2002.
King's memorial is open to the public for the first holiday since it opened.
The beloved London Zoo has provided generations of children with hours of fun since it opened in 1847.
The strikingly modern, 511-room Omni San Diego has been a business travel favourite since it opened in 2004.
No new deep mine has opened in south Wales since Betws colliery near Ammanford in 1974.
Mrs Johnson had worked at Cromer's Homebase store since it opened four years ago.
Green spaces have opened in the city since then but none have been designated parks, they added.
Rapid had been run by managing director Martin Doherty and his family since it opened in 1971.
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