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  • It's a sad sign of the recession when more and more fly-by-night Halloween superstore pop up to fill failed businesses in empty shells of long-term for-lease buildings.

    Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores? Harmon Leon 2011

  • The bad news is that Moore's images are real; during the USSF's opening ceremonies, we marched through the city's center, a surreal patchwork of attractive squares and bustling high-rises, checkered with empty buildings, open lots, for-lease signs and homeless people everywhere.

    Eric Holt Gimenez: Food Sovereignty Chronicles 2010

  • On a two-block stretch of Post Street between Stockton Street and Kearney Street, for-lease signs hang on seven storefronts on the prime blocks — marking the exits of clothiers like Mango,

    Empty Storefronts Blot Union Square Area Cari Tuna 2010

  • "Well, I don't want to see all those for-lease signs; look at that," she says.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • "Well, I don't want to see all those for-lease signs; look at that," she says.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • "Well, I don't want to see all those for-lease signs; look at that," she says.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • "Well, I don't want to see all those for-lease signs; look at that," she says.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Kidder Mathews - which calculates the vacancy rate for the entire city and includes owner-occupied buildings as well as for-lease space - put the rate at 13.46 percent in June, compared with 13.92 percent in March.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • "Well, I don't want to see all those for-lease signs; look at that," she says.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • In a shopping center on the edge of town, for-lease signs hang in window after window.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

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