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The bustling Pueblo Mall in Pueblo, Colorado, built in 1976, has become the city's social hub; it is among those regional malls that have tailored themselves to their consumers

Published Sun, May 21, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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    Pueblo, Colorado

    HAIR freshly done from the beauty parlour on a recent Friday morning, Ada Clark, 93, and her daughter Carol, 63, met in front of the JC Penney in the Pueblo Mall, about 100 miles south of Denver. Their afternoon plan: a walk around the mall, followed by lunch at Red Lobster.

    When the mall was built in 1976, Pueblo was a booming steel town. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co was the city's largest employer, and a now-empty meatpacking plant also offered good wages. The mall - with its 1,100 retail jobs - has outlasted them both. It's also the social hub for the city - and for the many small towns east to Kansas and south to New Mexico.

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