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Retail Is the Lifeblood of America’s Cities, and It’s in Crisis

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Retail Is the Lifeblood of America’s Cities, and It’s in Crisis
A sign advertises retail space in a trendy West Village neighborhood in New York City on April 11, 2017. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
J.G. Collins
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Whole server racks (the equivalent of whole forests in the print era) have been sacrificed to stories about “The Retail Apocalypse” and the “Death of Retail.” All the stories present a binary view: retail is dead; retail isn’t dead.

J.G. Collins
J.G. Collins
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J.G. Collins is managing director of the Stuyvesant Square Consultancy, a strategic advisory, market survey, and consulting firm in New York. His writings on economics, trade, politics, and public policy have appeared in Forbes, the New York Post, Crain’s New York Business, The Hill, The American Conservative, and other publications.
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