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Another near death shopping center. The Gallery, Philadelphia's huge downtown mall, will close at the end of January. Mall tenants were only informed of this about a month ago, however, and the newspapers are keeping mum about this. Interestingly, a transit cop told me he knew about the closing four months ago. Talk about perception management, eh? Just like with so many other businesses, the stock market or the economy itself, the collapse will only startle those who haven't been paying attention.



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