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Day
27
Month
July
Year
1977
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Smaller
Old World
Mall Opening

The Old WorkL Village. Mall will }
reopen at the Westgate shopping cen-
ter Monday with seven of its former
shop tenants. ,; ':

The scaled-down version of the iH- |
fated mini-mall is being launched by ^
! t Donald E. V;i iiir's ;

i iinan managerii 11-
pany. :

Robert Smith ! : Dutchman di-
rector, says an ! JO-some former
Old World tenants are still consider-
ing reopening booths in the former :

{link's discount department store |
building. 3

About one quarter of the available
booth space has been leased so far", |
Smith says. Other tenants want to sec ;

if the revived mall concept works be'-
fore committing themselves, he says.

Van Curler and h"^ -^'rtner in the ,
venture, St. Clan Raymond ,3
Gellain. have already opened a 20,000 ?
square foot True Value hardware ^
store in part of the building, which '\
Smith says is "doing quite well." • '

A Polynesian restaurant and yet- ,
unidentified fast food franchise are al- ^
so scheduled to be housed in the
building, says Smith. ' |

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