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A mall pioneer nears the finish
Bill Roase dabbed his eyes with a sleeve Thursday up to now another customer stopped by to mourn the likely closing of his shoe repair shop at Southdale Center,[url=http://duveticajacketsmenonsalejp.halod.com/][b]ダウンジャケットメンズ[/b][/url].
A lease dispute within the Edina mall's efforts to strengthen its food court threatens to squeeze out Ralph's Shoe Service, the oldest tenant at the nation's oldest enclosed shopping mall.
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Citing company policy, a Southdale official declined to discuss "private tenant-landlord issues."
Les Morris, a spokesman with Simon Properties' corporate office in Indianapolis,[url=http://duveticajacketsshopjp.gengfl.com/][b]デュベティカ 激安[/b][/url], couldn't say whether it was common practice for merchants to pay relocation and build-out costs when forced to move.
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Customers and well-wishers came in a steady flow Thursday after television reports on the store's plight.
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