“In addition, it has been less successful than we had hoped in selling consumer electronics in its mall stores.”
Brad Anderson
“We view Manasquan downtown as highly retail, ... Fortunately, it's continued to be successful competing with the strip malls, and we'd like to keep it that way. This is more of a proactive step to retain that character as opposed to having it turn into office space.”
Richard Dunne
“It's not a mall. We want people to park their cars, walk around, go to lunch, go to a store and go to a movie. We want them to feel like it's the center of town.”
Walter Smith
“I haven't heard that anyone is doing well anywhere. Even my friend who has a store at the mall says all we get are tire kickers.”
Laura Harrison
“But that's just the trend with malls. Malls lose stores and they gain stores and in 2006 we have some great things happening.”
Jana Kuner
“Black Friday is like a national phenomenon, ... The nice thing this year is that there's a lot of mall store traffic very early and people are holding lots of bags. So they're not just window shopping. They're actually buying.”
Paul Cohen
“Even teens are less interested in going to the mall.”
Marian Salzman
