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Article: Large shopping center gives new outlook to city's retail. (Spotlight on Glendora).(Glendora Marketplace)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 17, 2002
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WHAT used to be a strawberry patch is turning into a 48-acre commercial development in southeast Glendora--and the road to making it happen says a lot about a city's coming of age.
While local residents had to be appeased in shaping the development, called the Glendora Marketplace, there was the recognition around town that after years of seeing sales tax dollars go to surrounding communities, the time had come to welcome a retail project.
"I think the folks who were opposed to it are recognizing that it's turned out to be a good thing for the city," said Brad Miller, deputy public works director and an assistant city engineer. "If they were having ...