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In addition, the whole "malls are failing" rhetoric is a bit distracting.

"Developer owned" malls are mostly failing.

Companies like WalMart, Target, CostCo, etc. discovered the same thing that McDonald's did--own the real estate under the building for maximum economic leverage. That will never happen in a downtown, so the big companies are simply not going to go there unless the economics really work out.




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