W HEN people can afford to pay several thousand dollars a month in rent, they are going to demand other services and that will draw retail," she said.
Unlike the Fancy Food Show, another trade spectacular that has drawn retail food consumers to the Javits Center in previous years, the restaurant show, with 800 exhibitors, celebrates the culinary infrastructure, and its devotees include chefs, workaday cooks, restaurant managers, purchasing agents and food brokers.
Yet SoftBank's brand name is still likely to draw retail investors long accustomed to using SoftBank's phone and internet services.
The study, published online last week in Pediatrics, drew from retail pharmacy databases that include about half the prescriptions dispensed in the United States.
It drew most retail business away from downtown Burlington, said Mayor Peter Clavelle, who said his city was able to compensate with restaurants, cultural activities and boutiques.
The opening of malls and large shopping centers drew off retail business from Granby Street.
Many see the stadium as the city's last hope to draw big retail to downtown.
For J.C. Penney, a partnership would bring in not only a recognizable brand, but also an opportunity to draw on retail practices that Mr. Johnson first developed at Target and Apple.
Promoting tourism with the vast public beaches, trying to develop a 100-acre technology campus off Route 34 and attempting to draw large retail operations to West Haven are among the ways the city can diversify its economic base, he said.
She drew on her retail experience to both organise the WAAAF and design its uniform.
