Word: malling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even in the leanest machine, it's hard to avoid such accoutrements of the '90s as logo-design consultants, glossy blue press packets and focus groups that mall-test key words to see which ones grab people's attention. Deaver's p.r. firm, Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, is billing its services at a 20% discount; Deaver is donating his. Powell is not going to put up with the kind of waste made notorious by charity balls and the United Way scandal, in which money was spent to raise more money and lavished on salary and perks. The two founding partners...
...businessman, Johnson is showing the same kind of all-star potential. The opening of the 12-screen Magic Theatre movie complex next to the flagging Greenbriar Mall in predominantly black southwest Atlanta is the latest deal to establish the former hoop sorcerer as a force in inner-city economic development. Magic movie marquees are going up in Houston and Cleveland, Ohio, and Johnson has announced plans for 14 new multiplexes in 10 other cities over the next two years...
...movie house. "Everybody in Hollywood said it wouldn't work," Johnson says of the L.A. deal. "They laughed at us, and they laughed at Sony. Now they want to know how they can help." The theater's success has given an assist to other businesses there. Like Greenbriar, the mall had been struggling, with occupancy languishing between 65% and 70%. Since the theater opened in 1995, occupancy has recovered to 98%, and tenants report 30% to 70% increases in sales over the past 18 months. Before the Atlanta theater opened, Johnson was getting calls from businesses such as TGIFridays...
...that as it may, Rice, who lives a few blocks from the restaurant, wasn't the only one who went apoplectic when the Straya California Creole Grand Cafe was unveiled, looking like an accident between a cruise ship and a strip mall. "It gives me high blood pressure," says Louise Martin, a member of a neighborhood group. But she seems to be expressing a minority opinion, especially now that Copeland has been giving discounts to customers bearing Rice's ads. In a Times-Picayune poll, readers took his side 3 to 1. "And we're booked," says Copeland...
...addition, Defense Fund members feel that the Mom-and-Pop establishments which make the Square more than a mall are threatened by national chains that can pay higher rents, edging out their smaller competitors...