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Residents in southwest Denver are excited that the Alameda Square shopping center redevelopment is finally taking shape after 20 years in the making, beginning with Lowe's Home Improvement opening March 5.

Lowe's, which is hiring up to 120 people, will be the anchor at the formally blighted center east of South Federal Boulevard on West Alameda Avenue. The first phase of construction that began last spring is 90 percent complete, said Sverre Jensen, area director with Brighton Corp., the development firm overseeing the project. Read more...

Imagine it’s 5:00 PM the day before Valentine’s Day and, as always, you forgot to plan something special for your wife. You imagine a nice romantic dinner and a thoughtful gift would do the trick, but there’s barely any time left and you have only a foggy notion of what your wife might like.

Suddenly in a hurry, you wrap up a video chat you’ve been having with a construction manager on site at your company’s latest project and race out the office door. Along the way, you grab your mobile tablet and start frantically scrolling through the touch screen menus to get to your family’s joint shopping channel looking for a list of your wife’s favorite retailers. Read more...

The friction of string against my eyebrow was annoyingly scratchy — like a shirt tag at your back.

A petite Indian woman rolled the thread against my skin. No torture was involved. No cuts or bleeding wounds, just fast plucking. A crowd gathered around my chair to watch as she twisted the string from one angle to another.

Santi Sudha Yadlapalli is a trailblazer. She specializes in eyebrow threading, twisting a cotton string onto brow hairs to remove hair and shape the brow. Read more...

Portsmouth — For 22 years, LeClub Boutique and Choozy Shoes have been retail roommates. They have shared three locations, including the current one at Vaughan Mall.

But that ended with the closure of Choozy Shoes.

“It's like getting a divorce,” said Beth Gross-Santos, owner of LeClub Boutique. “It's a big loss in so many ways, a whole era together.” Read more...

Abercrombie & Fitch, the one-time sales and fashion star of teen retailing, has yet to show signs of recovery, raising questions about its grip on teen style.

The New Albany, Ohio, company, seller of $40 T-shirts and $90 jeans, was among the worst performers during the holiday season, even with uncharacteristically high levels of discounting. The retailer posted a 19% decline in December sales at stores open at least a year, with its lowest-priced brand, Hollister, down 25% in December from a year earlier. Read more...

Vero Beach — The Indian River Mall welcomes girls to sell cookies and learn the process of running a small business

Across the nation, it's Girl Scout cookie time and eager, young girls are knocking on doors and even setting up tables outside of busy stores to entice patrons. Yet, some Vero Beach troops have set up shop at Indian River Mall to sell cookies and use this opportunity to learn the process of running a small business. Read more...

Very few products in retail have had such a polarising effect as Crocs. Worn by rock stars and presidents' wives but completely dismissed by the fashion fraternity, these colourful foam clogs with holes – love them or hate them – have attained both popularity and worldwide ubiquity since they first appeared in 2002.

But today, dogged by rumours of its manufacturers going bust and an apparent oversupply, the brand is determined to put up a fight to stay relevant and in demand. Read more...

Maybe it’s a sign of spring. Or maybe it’s a sign of the economy springing back to life.

Carousel Center mall is adding some new tenants, announcing a couple of names now and one or two more down the road. This, of course, is for the mall proper, not the still-to-open expansionconstruction activity and some shifting around of tenants who are on month-to-month leases. Read more...

Denver, CO - It has been 25 years since the 16th Street Mall in Denver has seen any significant changes. It is hoped by later this year it will.

There are currently around 30,000 people that visit the mall daily. Those primarily are business people working in the vicinity of the mall. The Downtown Denver Partnership wants to make the pedestrian mall more of a destination location for the tens of thousands of residents in the area and the millions of tourists that visit Denver every year. Read more...

Cedar Falls - There's a new boss at College Square Mall in Cedar Falls.

James M. Grant Jr. has been named general manager of the mall, effective immediately, the mall's owner, Barrington, Ill.-based GK Development Inc., announced Monday. Read more...