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Tysons corner is totally packed. what the mall operators tell us is they are trying to increase security but not increase the visibility of the security so you dont feel a heavy security presence even though we had a mall shooting earlier this month. theyre increasing patrols, increasing coordination with local law enforcement and making sure that local law enforcement knows their way around the malls, how to respond, and also increasing training of the employees here in terms of sheltering in p...

We are an entrepreneurial company, we have that spirit. the same spirit as my father and grandfather many years before. our business, like most businesses is a relationship business. our relationships with the senior management of our tenant partners goes back 25, 30 years in some cases. at anytime, mall operators, strip center operators could have called our tenants and developed relationships, but they did not. today, we still value those relationships. when a new tenant comes into our industr...