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Old Posted Oct 10, 2010, 1:38 PM
miketoronto miketoronto is offline
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According to the Center City District, the Gallery at Market East has
40,000 + people pass by or shop there each day.
That is a ton of people.

The issue with Center City is not that stores closed due to lack of business. Strawbridges maintained a flagship store until the chain was bought by MACY'S which then closed down the store to keep the Wannamaker building open.
All the other stores that departed Center City along Market Street were department store chains that closed as the chains themselves closed, mostly due to mergers and families dying off and not continuning the business.

The only issue is that stores like Nordstroms went for the malls instead of locating in Center City.

But then King of Prussia is such a draw that even people from Manhattan shop there. They actually have buses to take Manhattan residents from NYC to King of Prussia to shop.
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