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In reply to the discussion: There is a large mostly abandoned shopping center near where I live. [View all]IbogaProject
(4,667 posts)They had onerous lease terms, requiring stores to be open every hour the mall was open and only those hours. They were a step down from local businesses open the hours that the individual businesses wanted. The mall was based more on corporate stores like Foot Locker and Kinney Shoes and large Department Stores. As the economy has bifurcated there isn't enough business for that model anymore. The whole private equity model swoops in like a loan shark. While Private Equity is legal they have unfair advantages like the ability to deffer taxes on their investment gains, they also are allowed to borrow more against stocks than a retail investor. That tax break was intended to make it easier for small startup ventures to get funded but it was immediately turned into support for speculators and other destructive business practices. This problem dates to the Reagan and Bush administrations.
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