Updated at 8.23pm BST 7.35pm BST Kenyan government sources have been telling journalists that the attackers rented shop property at the mall ahead of their assault, smuggling in weapons and ammunition (tweets Sky's Alex Crawford).
Bizarrely, it is more expensive to rent shopping-space in the nondescript south London suburb of Croydon than in the plushest shopping streets of Milan, Stockholm or Dublin.
Mr. Grabowsky said he would spend $2 million restoring the Hinck Building to its original Southwest Mission-style splendor -- and weed through hundreds of inquiries about renting shop space to find "destination stores" that will draw customers from outside Montclair.
Kayaks can be rented at shops dotting the Island.
A Guardian straw poll on York Road, where at least four of the contenders have rented empty shops for the campaign, suggests that enough Labour voters plan to defect or stay at home to dispel any complacency.
The Islamist militants involved in the Kenyan siege rented a shop in the Westgate shopping complex where they were able to stockpile weapons and ammunition, senior security sources have told the BBC.
Its retail arm, called BestChoice, first rents shops and then invites shopkeepers to run them.
He started by telling me about the positive things happening in the town, but soon he was on to the depressing details: unemployment, people doing two jobs just to pay the rent, shops closing.
Twinity, which has just raised €4.5m in new funding, has a virtual version of Berlin and Singapore (with London still in the pipeline): you buy existing apartments or rent shops but can't build yourself.
The surrounding streets, with their tatty parades of low-rent shops and old-style pubs, rancid with cigarette smoke and the stench of stale booze, seemed very much as they ever did, as oddly did the fans themselves.
