| Lifestyle launches Perfume Division at newly re-opened Sharjah CC ...
Lifestyle, a division of Landmark Retail Ltd, has introduced perfumery to its retail store at Sharjah City Centre. With the new department, Lifestyle has become one of the licensed retailers in the region for international brands such as Calvin Klein, Cerruti, Canali, Davidoff, Nicole Farhi, Moschino, Loewe, Police and Versace. Occupying a prime location in the store, the perfume department was launched at the Sharjah City Centre outlet, which recently re-opened after undergoing an expansion and interior dcor renovation. Adding the perfume range to our stock is an important move for Lifestyle. Diversifying our offerings for our customers is a commitment that Lifestyle holds for its customers, who are accustomed to seeing global brands in different sections of the store.
Residents back plan to tear down mall
A number of eastside community leaders came out Thursday in support of scrapping Eastland Mall and said they plan to form a political action committee to make sure their voices are heard during November's elections. Earlier this month, the Urban Land Institute recommended demolishing the shopping center off Central Avenue and building shops, housing and parks to create a town center at the 90-acre site. The nonprofit consultant group based in Washington was hired by the city and mall officials to come up with ways to revitalize the mall. On Thursday, the eastside leaders told about three dozen of their neighbors at the Charlotte Museum of History that they support taking the mall down to remove what has become a negative symbol for the area. Organizers said they want to get rid of the Eastland name and "rebrand" the area.
Inspectors target Fat City
Building inspectors and sheriff's deputies rolled into the former Fat City just after 8 this morning to sweep the neighborhood for code violations and criminal suspects. The effort was the third such neighborhood sweep of the year for Jefferson Parish authorities but the first on the east bank of the Mississippi River. Previous initiatives targeted the Tallow Tree subdivision in Harvey and the Monterey Court-Cooper Road area of Terrytown. Officials assembled their task force at Lakeside Shopping Center then caravaned into what was Metairie's thriving entertainment district in the 1970s and early 1980s. Since then, Fat City has evolved into a mishmash of low-rent apartment complexes, bars, stores, offices and restaurants with poor drainage, exposed power lines and a dearth of off-street parking.
Competitors force Blue Ridge Outdoors to take hike
Campers buying tents in the 1970s likely had a different shopping experience than those looking for them today. Before the Internet and massive discount retailers, locally owned outdoors stores had the edge as prime places to buy hiking, camping and other outdoor supplies. Today, bargains on outdoor gear abound online, from Internet retailers' Web sites to online auction business eBay. And a local outdoors retailer says it has fallen under the pressure of competing with this low-price-hunting game. Blue Ridge Outdoors, founded in 1977, closed its Roanoke and Blacksburg stores this week. The stores at Valley View Mall in Roanoke and on North Main Street in downtown Blacksburg sold apparel, shoes and equipment for hikers, boaters and other outdoor enthusiasts.
College plays matchmaker
Anyone wanting to drive a train or pilot a plane, arrest a crook or read children a book, should have been at the Carl Sandburg College job fair Thursday morning. The annual job fair open to the public as well as students put more than 50 prospective employers in one room where hopeful job seekers could ask questions, read a brochure or fill out an application. "That's the beauty of a job fair," said Jan Hipple coordinator of employment resources for the college. Participating employers ranged from the Illinois Air National Guard and the Knox County Sheriff's office to the Methodist College of Nursing and the Great Oaks Camping Association. Hipple said the average attendance for the college's job fair is about 300, with some even going home with more than a free ballpoint pen.
Sandusky Mall rebounds after some lean times
SANDUSKY — From U.S. Route 250, the Sandusky Mall is a nondescript shell of a structure that's nearly hidden by a dense patch of retail stores, motels and signs so close together they seem to become a giant work of pop art. Despite the 31-year-old mall's lack of visual appeal, it has 92 stores inside and an enviable occupancy rate of 96 percent, which the mall's owner, the Cafaro Co. of Youngstown, says will reach 100 percent by summer. Cafaro is preparing to add another 75,000 square feet outside for several new, nationally known tenants and another 65,000 inside the mall for other new tenants, which are to be announced in April. Cafaro also is in the early stages of developing an upscale apartment complex and outdoor lifestyle center on 14 acres that will connect with the enclosed mall, according to Norm Peters, senior vice president for real estate for Cafaro, the mall's only owner.
Braselton's busting at the seams: New shopping helps increase ...
As fast as families can move into their new homes, developers are building places for them to shop in Braselton and Hoschton. Braselton Planning Director Kevin Keller said that residents rarely protest rezonings for new commercial development at town council meetings. Many people, like Chateau Elan resident Uli Henssge, are glad to see their property values increase, because convenient shopping increases a home's market value. "It's certainly the easiest money we ever made," Henssge said. Henssge and his family moved in April 2000 from Lawrenceville. At the time, the Vineyards shopping center with Publix had not been built, Hamilton Mill was developing and the Mall of Georgia was new. The convenience of area shopping is wonderful, Henssge said. "I believe growth is great, growth is inevitable and growth brings benefits." Terri Wadsworth of Hoschton is more skeptical.
Palo Alto Bowl already missed
At 11:30 a.m.Wednesday, teacher Kathy Wilson was still shepherding little stragglers out of the Palo Alto Bowl and into the waiting Peninsula Day Care Center school bus. The roundup concluded one of the center's popular bimonthly outings. "They love it. They go crazy," Wilson said. But those field trips to the bowling alley may have to be rerouted in the near future. Libby Glass, development project manager at Barry Swenson Builder, confirmed Tuesday night that her company probably will complete a deal to buy the bowling alley site at 4329 El Camino Real by April 30 and build a "brand-name" hotel there. That means nearly 20 bowling leagues and regulars at the alley's Tuesday and Sunday night karaoke events and Thursday 50-cent beers night will have to find a new venue. Russell Smith, owner of Phoenix Construction, said the league his company sponsors, the Phoenix Vanderbeek Classic, closed last week after at least 20 years because members knew the alley was for sale.
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