Downtown Oklahoma City retail hub would require loyalty

 
BY STEVE LACKMEYER
Published: February 14, 2009

When a regional mall was built outside Boulder, Colo. , in 1963, the town’s downtown retailers could have waived the same white flag that was flown in similar situations across the country.

But instead, the downtown retailers banded together, formed one of the country’s earliest business improvement districts and survived the onslaught of modern malls.

The resilience of retail in downtown Boulder was ...


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