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Occasionally, I get out of the office for a day to visit the select properties, usually ones we own, but as in yesterday's case, sometimes other properties as well. My boss, a co-worker and I visited four malls, one power center and, for lunch, a great Pizza Joint called Tonelli's.




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We started driving forty miles from our rendez-vous point to Quaker Bridge Mall, which we don't own. North of Trenton, it's little bit out of our immediate trade area, but we do draw customers from some overlapping towns. On our way back toward Philadelphia we stopped another mall that we don't own, Oxford Valley, and power center we own in concert with another company. Then we drove to Franklin Mills, which is the Philadelphia edition of the Mills Corporation (since purchased by another company). You may be familiar with other malls in the same genre like Gurnee Mills in Illinois, Arundel Mills in Maryland, and Colorado Mills in, where else, Colorado.

By the time we finished at Franklin Mills it was well past lunchtime. We headed straight for the highly recommended Tonelli's about a half-hour away. It was worth the wait. We finished our tour at Willow Grove Park, a mall we own and manage. This property is one for which I have responsibilities. From there, I took the train back to Philadelphia and ended the day a little earlier than normal.