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| | Reinventing Retail: Community, Lifestyle, and Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Community-based anchors, innovative public/private development strategies, new tenant concepts, creative leisure retailing, urban lifestyle and entertainment concepts, and hybrids of all forms and sizes are reshaping the retail world and bringing new dynamism to an industry that until recently had been for decades largely static. |
 | | Casinos, resorts, sports, and waterfront entertainment zones are incorporating shopping at a rapid clip into their mix of activities as developers and retailers try to capitalize on the growing crowds that gather in these places for a few hours, a few days, or a few weeks. |
 | | In the 1990s, location-based entertainment was considered a stand-alone type of shopping center development or as a shopping center anchor that could be added like a department store to draw customers. |
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