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Tiny Tim Plaza started out as a gas station and a dozen or so stores. Now it’s a thriving mixed-use community, minus the gas station.

Street next to a huge church. >> the perfect location, he thought, to turn a space that was empty for three years, into something else entirely. wall to wall trampolines that draw kids and their parents to rent time by the hour. >> the kids come and bounce off the walls. >> this place represents a retail conversion happening across the country. as landlords try to bounce back in a bad economy. >> a struggling mall in roanoke, virginia, houses a science museum and on the second floor, a technical college is leasing space. a medical clinic moved into an old circuit city. what was once a shopping...