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...acquittal prompted public expressions of outrage and raised the possibility of legal reform. Home Secretary William Whitelaw said a change in the law of trespass may be considered to make it possible to charge trespassers with criminal penalties. Said the tabloid Sun: "Next time you are walking along the Mall and feel thirsty, why not pop into Buckingham palace for a glass...
...Dayton, an aging factory located near Interstate 75 has been converted into a 20-unit outlet mall, offering luggage, draperies, clothing and even power tools at 50% to 70% below retail. Says Sanford Mendelson, whose family bought the building from General Motors last year: "People who never stopped in Dayton when passing by are now stopping like crazy...
Some of the new factory-outlet centers are no longer off-the-rack spartan. In Florida, the Orlando Factory Outlet Mall, which opened last year on the road between the city and Walt Disney World, offers, in addition to the usual stores, an antique-costume portrait center, a time-share condominium sales office, a Pac-N-Send mailing service and a video-game room. Traditional retailers hope that the factory outlets will fade away with the return of better economic times. Perhaps, but in the meantime, factory outlets will continue to be today's fashion...
WHEN HARVARD'S Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) got itself into new trouble this summer, one longtime opponent of the plant thought he had the ideal solution for the woeful diesel facility. Recalling the conversion of a grundgy Cambridge garage several years ago into a spiffy shopping mall known as "The Garage at Harvard Square," he suggested MATEP be converted into a consumer's palace, perhaps by the name of "The Power Plant at Mission Hill...
...Formaggio's and Coffee Connection certainly isn't what Harvard had in mind when it first started the cogeneration facility six years ago. But MATEP has been bogged down in court and regulatory battles almost since its inception. With Harvard's diesels once again embattled, the shopping mall concept is emblematic of what the university should do with its fiscal albatross...