Kavanaugh found a good location in a small strip center in Santa Monica.

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That created a stir in Sam's Barber Shop, tucked into a strip shopping center around the corner from City Hall.

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Meantime, Blackstone also is preparing for a likely initial public offering of its strip-center owner, Brixmor Property Group, by the end of this year.

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Two main odometers flank the left and right side, a center strip provides you with miscellaneous details, while two smaller meters sit above that detail how much charge is in the battery and an estimate of how many miles of range you've got left.

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Between Central Park and Rockefeller Center, this commercial strip is the El Dorado of shopping.

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In the city's market-filled Strip District is the Heinz History Center (www.heinzhistorycenter.org), which boasts a major exhibition of Vatican art that will only hit three cities in the US this year.

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Seeing the drawing in person, one is confronted with its fragility and physicality: The sheet comprises two pieces of paper, glued together with a strip that runs right through the center.

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And Taubman will help develop 500, 000 square feet of retail space at MGM Mirage's City Center casino on the Las Vegas Strip, slated to open in 2009.

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Suvarnabhumi's international terminal is one long strip with retail outlets distributed throughout, and passengers leaving passport control emerge into the center of a kilometer-long stretch of duty-free shopping.

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