A Bona Fide Retail Opportunity for Non-store Merchants, Or Just Another Entrepreneurial Misfire?

But that’s the commercial real estate business for you. And nabbing the Christiana Mall lease was, no doubt, a tough thing to nail down. In fact, Epicenter first announced its founding two years ago when it all but had signed a lease for a department store space at the Polaris Fashion Palace, an upscale mall in Columbus, Ohio. But that lease never got signed as the deal fell through, and it took Lee and Gordon all this time to finally make their vision a reality.