BACK TO THE CORNER STORE; Retailers and developers are reviving the old-fashioned idea of shopping on Main Street. Only this time, Main Street isn't quite real

From: The Washington Post | Date: December 17, 2000| Author: Ann Gerhart | Copyright information

A gunmetal Sunday, an election in limbo, the Redskins have a bye. Washingtonians aren't really sure what to do with themselves, so thousands of them go shopping at Washingtonian Center.

A two-year-old string of boutiques (a whole store of Lindt chocolates! another dedicated to fine wines!) and national retailers (cheap fleeces at Kohl's! bad fiction at Barnes & Noble!), Washingtonian Center isn't in Washington but in Gaithersburg. And that's just the first of the paradoxes. It's an inv...

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