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Old 03-12-2024, 08:21 PM
 
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The crime and drug use is out of control, and all of Union Square is suffering the same fate.
So, in other words you have no source for saying they closed due to crime.

That's not what Macy's says is the reason
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Old 03-12-2024, 09:06 PM
 
Location: The ghetto
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The crime and drug use is out of control, and all of Union Square is suffering the same fate.
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So, in other words you have no source for saying they closed due to crime.

That's not what Macy's says is the reason
What part of "Macy's is trying to sell the building" are you having difficulty with?
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Old 03-13-2024, 04:33 AM
 
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She does not have one. She is relatively competent at using a search engine, so if she had a source to back up her assertion, she would post it. When she strains her nether regions to produce a San Francisco Sidewalk Surprise, as she has done here, she merely cries “is too” when she is called out on her Kompulsive Kow Krap. Over and over again. In spite of her extensive experience at being wrong, she can never admit it.
You read her beads perfectly!
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Old 03-13-2024, 06:11 AM
 
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What part of "Macy's is trying to sell the building" are you having difficulty with?
What part of "Macy's says the closures are due to sluggish sales and they're hoping to fend off a pending takeover bid." are you having trouble with?
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Old 03-13-2024, 06:46 AM
 
Location: Amelia Island/Rhode Island
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The crime and drug use is out of control, and all of Union Square is suffering the same fate.
Still waiting for you to provide a credible link from Macy’s clarifying the location is closing due to crime.
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Old 03-13-2024, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Providence, RI
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She does not have one. She is relatively competent at using a search engine, so if she had a source to back up her assertion, she would post it. When she strains her nether regions to produce a San Francisco Sidewalk Surprise, as she has done here, she merely cries “is too” when she is called out on her Kompulsive Kow Krap. Over and over again. In spite of her extensive experience at being wrong, she can never admit it.
You said it more clearly and succinctly than I could have. Well put.
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Old 03-13-2024, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Providence, RI
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What part of "Macy's says the closures are due to sluggish sales and they're hoping to fend off a pending takeover bid." are you having trouble with?
The part that doesn't align with their narrative that Macy's is trying to hide the "out of control crime and drug use" from a potential buyer. I'm no crime expert, but if it's so out of control that it's forcing Macy's to close and destroying the entire square, I'm guessing that any potential buyer is probably aware of the situation regardless of what Macy's chooses to say publicly.
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Old 03-13-2024, 07:58 AM
 
Location: The ghetto
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Still waiting for you to provide a credible link from Macy’s clarifying the location is closing due to crime.
Still waiting for you to grasp that Macy's owns the Union Square building and is trying to sell it.
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Old 03-13-2024, 08:06 AM
 
Location: The ghetto
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The part that doesn't align with their narrative that Macy's is trying to hide the "out of control crime and drug use" from a potential buyer.
The mayor certainly is. Gee I wonder why.
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Old 03-13-2024, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Amelia Island/Rhode Island
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Still waiting for you to grasp that Macy's owns the Union Square building and is trying to sell it.
It is not because of crime, Macy’s like Sears owned some of its property it’s stores were on but leased many others. It is next to impossible to sell these commercial spaces and if Macy’s is hemorrhaging cash a corporate owned property that is underperforming due to changes in consumer shopping habits it has to be one of the first to go.

We have an abandoned mall with over 1.39 million square feet that they can’t figure out away to repurpose. So it sits empty except for a church and one or two other spots. This is happening all over America.

The real crime is these retailers didn’t see this coming over the years but Covid did push them over the edge.
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