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Originally Posted by missyomama
No, I do not have numbers to back me up. Just friends that were employed by some of the storefronts that are now gone. The reason they closed the business was, "not enough customers to support the leases". Maybe those businesses were not a good fit for our downtowns. What kind of business would you frequent in our squares?
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I have to wonder if the businesses did a good enough job on their business case prior to opening to understand if they could afford the rent with the particular business they wanted to open. In some cases it is very easy to blame the rent.