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This year’s most lucrative retail leases look different from the usual Manhattan fare. Generally an apparel or beauty store appears at the top of the list. Or, like last year, a luxury retailer. But this year, decidedly unsexy big-box operators dominated the charts. And though many retailers were wary of expansion, some were bullish. Target, for example. The big-box retailer had four of the 10 most valuable retail leases this year, ranked by annual rent. “While the transaction volume was do...