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Retail Chains Abandon Manhattan: ‘It’s Unsustainable’
New York Times ^ | Aug. 11, 2020 | Matthew Haag and Patrick McGeehan

Posted on 08/11/2020 3:26:31 PM PDT by Mount Athos

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61 posted on 08/11/2020 4:00:12 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Fungi
The store has to be doing three million a month in sales to even pay rent. Is that possible?

Victoria's Secret has been a tourist spot in NY for over 30 years...they do a yuge business.
62 posted on 08/11/2020 4:00:37 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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Chicago Mayor Drives Past Looters To Arrest 7-Year-Old Having A Birthday Party (SATIRE)
Babylon Bee ^ | August 10, 2020 | Babylon Bee

CHICAGO, IL—Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot protected the citizens of Chicago yesterday by arresting a 7-year-old having a birthday party.

The mayor reportedly jumped in her car and drove over toward the boy’s house, waving at looters, rioters, and murderers as she passed. Bricks, Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades flew over her car as she hurtled down the streets of Chicago, careening down alleyways and ripping through parking lots to get to the illegal party.

“Drop the cake and put your hands behind your head,” Lightfoot said. “Nice and easy — you’re coming with me.”

“The streets are now safe,” Lightfoot said as she led the boy to a Chicago PD squad car. “The citizens of Chicago can rest easy knowing that unlawful gatherings like this party are being broken up.”

“We feel much safer now that this maniac is behind bars,” said one Chicagoan as he hid in his house from looters. “I was really worried when I heard that a few people were gathering for a party. Now I know we’re safe.”

“We were concerned she was coming to take us down,” said one looter as he threw a brick into the window of a Target. “But she just passed us right on by. She definitely has her priorities in the right place.”

On her way back from arresting the youngster, Lightfoot pulled over to lecture a rioter who wasn’t wearing a mask. Once he had put his mask back on, she told him to go about his business.

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63 posted on 08/11/2020 4:01:47 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Trump claims that if Biden wins Americans will have to 'learn to speak Chinese'!!)
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To: Mount Athos

EMBRACE the SUCK you STUPID DEMOCRATS!


64 posted on 08/11/2020 4:04:03 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Mount Athos

NYC was once a prosperous capitalist city. There were many good reasons for people wanting to live there and be part of its commercial and culural life. This was just not acceptable to the marxists. Their tactics come right out of the Marx/Lenin playbook. Emasculate the police, no arrests, no prosecutions and the release of felons from prison. Soon capitalism and peaceful living become impossible. Business and people leave.Yet most do not realize or recognize what is happening to them. Residential and commercial real estate declines in value and decays. The “revolutionary vanguard” take over and rule the unfotunate people who remain. A harsh new unhappy reality is established.


65 posted on 08/11/2020 4:04:32 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Mount Athos

If your city has Soviet style bread lines you have no need for large retail chains and upscale restaurants. All you need are Commissars, Block Wardens, and ration cards. Maybe a GUM store in the middle of Manhattan would be nice too.


66 posted on 08/11/2020 4:04:50 PM PDT by Gritty (Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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To: Responsibility2nd

~$10,000 / day

It’s a big nut.


67 posted on 08/11/2020 4:06:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ocrp1982

Problem is that these people have short memories. They’ll move somewhere else and then vote in idiots like the ones they elected in NY. They never learn.


68 posted on 08/11/2020 4:07:41 PM PDT by abbastanza
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To: Mount Athos

“....$264,000 monthly rent....”

Gotta move a lot of rags to pay that rent. How on earth does a store like that pay to run.


69 posted on 08/11/2020 4:09:37 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I don’t care if your business model is selling cheape Chinese torn jeans to stupid kids for $125.00....


70 posted on 08/11/2020 4:11:19 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: mylife
"Commercial real estate is gonna get slammed." Excellent! A whole bunch of slimy shysters will get a haircut!😎
71 posted on 08/11/2020 4:14:25 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Mount Athos

Who would insure them?


72 posted on 08/11/2020 4:14:50 PM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: setter

[[[Rural America was devastated the last 30 years now it is going to be reborn.]]]

Yeah, great.


73 posted on 08/11/2020 4:15:12 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Mount Athos
Coming to New York and other liberal shxtholes:


74 posted on 08/11/2020 4:15:20 PM PDT by maddog55 (Only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it.)
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To: frank ballenger

I haven’t looked in a while but I’m almost positive that more than one of my business policies disclaim any payout for losses related to insurrection.....


75 posted on 08/11/2020 4:15:43 PM PDT by txeagle
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To: Mount Athos

Why should they??? No telling when the blacks get pissed off again


76 posted on 08/11/2020 4:15:49 PM PDT by Hambone 1934
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To: Mount Athos

Good job, Warren!


77 posted on 08/11/2020 4:16:09 PM PDT by hattend
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To: Bonemaker

Shysters? Really? Not cool.


78 posted on 08/11/2020 4:16:49 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: wally_bert
There goes a "destination" vacation!😎
79 posted on 08/11/2020 4:16:50 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

No matter how bad the progressives have screwed the pooch in one locale, they have to have people think it’s worse somewhere else. If it’s not, they will just make something up. There is no lie too big for the left if it means advancing their agenda.


80 posted on 08/11/2020 4:17:32 PM PDT by Rlsau1
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