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Pop-Up Stores Provide Lucrative Alternative For Small Businesses

Savvy entrepreneurs and larger retailers are opening up temporary stores, or “pop-ups” in empty storefronts, simultaneously boosting their brand and bottom line. The stores can last anywhere from a few days to a few months. And with the U.S. retail vacancy rate at 7.6%, for the third quarter of 2009, compared with 6.4% for the third quarter of 2008, according CoStar Group, Inc.-- and the holidays just around the corner-- now might be the best time to take advantage of the weak commercial real estate market.

Destination: Luxury

All visitors receive a personal letter signed by Hopkin thanking them for their stay. When he is in town, he hosts a weekly cocktail party on the resort. Every other week the party is hosted at his home. “This is a formal invitation. I get 97% acceptance. It gives the hotel a face. I am my severest critic,” he continues. “There is no compromise for our standards.”

Stimulus: Take Two

It would be foolhardy to expect Democrats and Republicans to agree on how best to stimulate the nation’s economy. So it came as no surprise that Democrats call President George...

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