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Beth Karlin

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Retail on the Run
Mar 15, 2003
You’ve just missed the 7:30 to Scarsdale and have to wait a half hour for the next train. In the old days, you could have grabbed some coffee and a bagel or maybe slipped into the Oyster bar for a quick one. These...
SCW MALL WALK: One Reason Why Women Love Malls
Mar 01, 2003
My friend Patricia is a clothes horse with a problem. She's got plenty of money and loves to shop. But she's not Kate Moss's size. And she's tired of getting the brush-off from emaciated saleswomen when she asks if...
NEWS: European Facelift for a Chicago Landmark
Mar 01, 2003
Four historic Chicago storefronts will survive a massive retail and residential gut job thanks to a restoration process little-used in the United States. The only way to save the shops' 100-foot-by-200-foot masonry...
NEWS: Food Fight in the Big Apple
Feb 01, 2003
While chains such as Whole Foods have spread gourmet food shopping across the United States, Manhattan has been a tough market because incumbents such as Balducci's, Fairway and Zabar's are so strong...
Will the Real Santa Please Stand Up?
Jan 01, 2003
Welcome to Mall Walk. In a new monthly column from the field, I hope to show how the various assumptions about trends in retailing and development actually hold up when they move from the drawing board to the market...