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No City Incentives for National Chains to compete with Local Businesses

  • Our background press release
  • Economic Study from Liveable City Civic Economics: Economic Impacts of Local Merchants versus Chain Retailers. Read the executive summary or the full report.
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  • Austin Chronicle Article about Border's pulling out.
    "The five-year saga of Austin's most controversial retail project took another sharp turn Wednesday as Borders Books and Music announced it was abandoning plans to build a location in the proposed Sixth + Lamar development -- across the street from local indie-biz icons BookPeople and Waterloo Records." Read the full article...
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