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Church buys vacant Macy's store in East Mesa
A church has purchased the vacant Macy's department store in East Mesa, Arizona, according to the Mesa Tribune. The sale means a large, empty retail property in the area will be given a new institutional use, part of a wider pattern of struggling malls and big-box stores being repurposed after anchor tenants close.
Why now: People are discussing the unusual conversion of a major mall anchor store into a religious property.
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- Church buys vacant Macy's store in East Mesa · The Mesa Tribune
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