Article: Outlets for Tension; Prime Retail's Malls Need to Produce to Pay for Last-Minute Rescue

After last-ditch financing rescued his company from the brink of bankruptcy last month, Prime Retail Inc. Chairman Glenn Reschke decided to recognize the entire 1,000-person workforce as a collective Employee of the Year.

At a Christmas party just days after the financing came through, he whisked a cloth off a commemorative plaque -- and accidentally knocked it to the floor and broke it.

"I hope that's not an omen," Reschke said with a laugh in a recent interview at his headquarters overlooking Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Omen or not, the incident was a fitting symbolic end to a year in which little went as planned for the nation's largest owner of outlet malls. Prime Retail's seemingly ...

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