Re: Office Depot

[Robert Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 07:55 PM 3/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I too was dumbfounded by the decision of Office Depot to occupy the
>former Ernst site. 
Did the building sit so long that they jumped at
>the first interested party, regardless if it duplicates an already
>existing business? 

Unless the Ernst building owners also own the Staples building (which I
doubt), they don't care if this creates duplication.  They only care that
they will have a rent-paying customer in a building that was previously
empty.  That's the way business decisions are made in our political economy.



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