Word: malling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corners of the town's courthouse square often change from green to yellow to red without anybody noticing. Most of the shops on the town square rarely get more than two customers at a time. Shoppers who once bustled along the dusty main strip have defected to the new mall in Manhattan, 40 miles to the southeast, or the Wal-Mart outside Concordia, equidistant in the opposite direction...
...price tags on 1.5 billion pieces of merchandise, Sears recruited a temporary army of retirees and high school students. Together with regular Sears employees, the price changers wielded 29,000 label guns. Said Chris Skinner, a high school freshman who worked at the Sears outlet in Columbus' Northland Mall: "The worst was the screwdrivers. You had to take them all down, clean each one by hand, then put them all back...
...petition, sponsored by the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association, is aimed at preventing Harvard from building a five-story hotel on the former site of the Gulf station and developer Graham Gund from constructing a six-story shopping mall on Arrow...
...Hybels' methods are so popular that they are being copied nationwide. Three times a year, 500 pastors converge on Willow Creek to study Hybels' methods. Already dozens of copycat congregations have begun popping up around the country. One of them, founded by pastor Jim Nicodem in a shopping mall theater in nearby St. Charles four years ago, has just launched a $2.5 million fund-raising drive for a new church complex dedicated to "presenting ageless truths in a contemporary fashion." There could be no better tribute to Hybels' vision -- or his marketing savvy...
...order to build the nine-store mall and office building, Gund's firm Gunwyn Company needs a special permit from the Planning Board. Gund's proposal was rejected by the Zoning Board of Appeals in 1986, prompting Gund to seek approval from the Planning Board, said La Tremouille. He said the board has jurisdiction over property fronting on Mass. Ave., but not Arrow...