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NEW BOSTON, Texas -- Rowe Casa is expanding its operations into a 24,000-square-foot set of buildings at TexAmericas Center.

TEXARKANA -- This Mother's Day, consider thinking about the woman behind the mother.

After years of being forced to accept the worst jobs for the lowest pay in the auto industry, Black workers sparked a revolt in the late 1960s. What started as a loose collection of people at a Dodge plant in Detroit grew into the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, whose tenets are still being espoused today. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.

Share it Editor's Note: This story is part of a series about the pandemic's impact on retail in 2020, and what it means for 2021. Find the rest of the stories here. The formula of where to locate a store involves many variables — rent, lease terms, parking, zoning, visibility — but perhaps above all is going where the people are. The pandemic has shuffled much of that, including the tenant-landlord relationship. Even more profound is how it may have reshaped consumer habits, including where they shop and even live, for the longer term. The disease outbreak and its changes to daily life m...

Share it The retailer-landlord relationship may be entering not just a new year, but a new era. After a contentious 2020, many store tenants and landlords are reshaping their leases based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. It's been a trial by fire. As stores were forced shut for several weeks early in the year, retailers were left with little to no sales to fund the costs of running their operations. Furloughs and layoffs mitigated labor costs, inventory adjustments mitigated supply chain costs and e-commerce helped. But the rent was still due. That led to disputes with landlo...