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Retail Rents Falling From Manhattan To Los Angeles

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retail rents falling in many locales by percentages even greater than those seen in or after the 2007-08 Great Recession. These decreases are historic,” the Real Estate Board of New York wrote in a new report showing that average Manhattan retail asking rents fell in all of the island’s 17 retail corridors during autumn.

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Retail Pulse: Brookstone Files For Bankruptcy; Kroger Launches New Delivery Service

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Brookstone , a specialty retailer known for massage chairs and gadgets, used to be a must-see mall retailer. malls, Brookstone is now the latest major brick-and-mortar retailer to announce that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. Both have operations online under new owners, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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Community banks are thriving in Texas

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With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. The Houston metro took the 10th spot with a 20.3% It includes Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is moving its headquarters to the Houston area. Houston suffered damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. By Mindy Charski.

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Oprah Enters The Restaurant World

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As of today, the international media titan has announced an investment in True Food Kitchen , a healthy eating startup based out of Houston. The firm was founded in 2008 by Dr. Andrew Weil and Phoenix restaurateur Sam Fox, and was built around Weil’s anti-inflammatory food pyramid. Oprah Winfrey is becoming a restaurateur.

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Who were ICBA’s Top Lenders of 2022?

Independent Banker

We lent to retailers, restaurants, nonprofits, small mom-and-pop stores, barber shops, beauty salons, day cares, churches … we did not turn anybody away,” Frank says. “We We’re one of the very few banks that received a charter after the financial collapse in 2008, and we’re still going. We’re excited about expanding,” Frank says.

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The Return Of The Celebrity-Backed Brand

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Earlier this week, international media titan Oprah Winfrey announced an investment in True Food Kitchen , a healthy-eating startup based out of Houston. Dr. Andrew Weil and Phoenix restaurateur Sam Fox founded True Food Kitchen in 2008 and modeled it around Weil’s anti-inflammatory food pyramid.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

CB Insights

Retail/Consumer Goods. Founded: 2008. Originally opened in 2008 by a group of Googlers who wanted someplace a bit more free-form to do their “20% work.” (“20% work” itself is a form of constant innovation: it’s the 20% of the workweek during which Google employees get to work on projects not directly connected to their core tasks.)