| 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.
Mall opens for business after fire
A fire-damaged shopping mall on Auckland's North Shore opened on time today after a team of tradesmen worked overnight clearing up the mess. More than 80 firefighters and 18 fire appliances raced to the Milford Mall just north of Takapuna yesterday afternoon when fire broke out in a small shop behind The Warehouse. The mall was evacuated of hundreds of shoppers and business people as firefighters and police closed streets around the busy shopping centre. However, the New Zealand Retail Property Group, which has just bought the mall, said it would open on time today. Retail property manager Steve Holyer said fire safety officers were still working at the mall to determine how the fire began. "We worked through the night. We are here, we are ready.
Earth Week Goes Green
Climate change has been a hot topic of discussion and scientific debate for years. Practical solutions to the problem are few and far between. Mason Earth Week 2007, however, strives to provide students with some practical ways to save energy and reduce their impact on the environment. This week selected Mason faculty and students will come together for, what is now known as, Mason Earth Week 2007. The planning for this event began early this spring, and now includes several events over the period from Monday, April 16 to Wednesday, April 18 .
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It's official:Target will anchor old Valley mall
The Minneapolis-based retailer will anchor a new shopping center rising in the place of the 20-year-old Cottonwood Creek Mall. Crews are expected to demolish the flagging mall at the prime location of Parks and Palmer-Wasilla highways this spring. Target plans to open the Valley store in October 2008, representatives said Tuesday. Drawings of the new center depict two additional and as-yet unidentified smaller anchor stores, plus a number of shops and a stand-alone restaurant. An existing Taco Bell restaurant and Wells Fargo bank branch will stay in place. While rumors that Target would build in the Valley gained speed with the mall's sale last year, the formal announcement emerged with little fanfare at a sparsely attended Tuesday-evening session of the Wasilla Planning Commission.
'InsideMetals.com' Adds 13 Junior Gold Companies to Its Popular ...
RENO, Nev., April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InsideMetals.com, an internet website that provides world-wide information about the gold mining industry and profiles U.S. stock exchange listed Gold Producing Stocks, reported today that it has added 13 Junior Gold Companies to its Gold & Mineral Exploration Shopping Mall. The http://www.insidemetals.com/ website information resource now includes 77 companies. The following Junior Gold companies, which are listed by stage of development, have been added to the Insidemetals.com Gold & Mineral Exploration Shopping Mall. They are grouped where they are traded including the NASDAQ, the American Stock Exchange, the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board, the Toronto Exchange and the Toronto Venture Exchange. Junior Gold Prospectors added are Amanta Resources Ltd., Amera Resources Corp., American Creek Resources Ltd., Bravo Venture Group, Condor Resources Ltd., Copper Ridge Explorations Inc., Coral Gold Resources Ltd., and Tone Resources Ltd., all traded on the Toronto Venture Exchange, and X-Cal Resources Ltd., traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Missing the Boat On Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle has long been one of New York's problem children. Such an opportunity for urban grandeur! Yet such a disaster. The architect John Barrington Bayley proposed in the 1960s that the circle be surrounded by colonnaded buildings with concave faades. Though an entirely sensible suggestion, few took it seriously. They preferred the circle to remain a great missed opportunity. Now Columbus Circle has become chic. The Time Warner Center, designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was completed in 2003. It replaced the New York Coliseum, which, when Robert Moses built it in 1954, served as the city's convention center. It was banal, distinguished only by three large medallions on its faade, each of which was designed by Paul Manship. One medallion was the seal of the City of New York, one was the seal of the State of New York, and one was the seal of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.
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