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Article: Strip search: On the hunt for Long Island's best and worst shopping centers
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- Long Island Business News
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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One-stop shopping. That was the original idea for shopping
centers when they began blanketing the Long Island landscape a half-
century ago.
And as much as smart-growth advocates encourage people to visit
downtown merchants instead, strip centers here still serve as the
main source for groceries, hardware, clothes, hair cuts and a cup of
coffee.
What makes a good retail center? Location, tenant mix and
strength of anchor stores seem to be the most important criteria for
attracting customers.
Of the Island's hundreds of shopping centers big and small, there
are some outstanding performers - busy ones with low tenant turnover
- and quite a few clunkers. We polled the area's commercial brokers ...