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THE old Rack space headquarters was stuffed to the gills. In 2007 the company, which offers (1)and web-hosting services, had more than 1,000 employees in downtown San Antonio. People were crammed at(2)tables in the hallway. They often had to go to a different building or(3)the lifts to talk to people in other departments.Still, when Graham Weston, the company's co-founder and chairman, suggested that they (4)a shopping mall, staff were(5)The mall was vacant. Its site, the encircled suburb of Wind crest, was slightly grotty, not least(6)the huge dead mall right off the highway.Building a campus from scratch, however, would have taken several years at least. Anyway. The place was cheap. “Nobody wants a mall anymore." says John Engates, the chief technology officer. Except Rack space, and others like it, who have come to see a(7) mall as a blank canvas? In 2008 it opened its new headquarters, and won a prize for community economic development. Now it has more than 3,000 workers on site, with plans to hire hundreds(8)by the end of the year.Plenty of enclosed malls are, of course,(9)thriving. And after several abstemious years, shoppers are(10).In February, according to the Commerce Department, retail sales were 1.1% higher than they had been in January-higher than (11), and a welcome sign of recovery.But many American malls had(12)before the recession started, and the country's nascent recovery is not likely to(13)them. America's retail sector is probably overbuilt; in the fourth quarter of 2011,according to the National Association of Realtors, its(14)rate was 16.9%. Mass are vulnerable to systemic shocks; if an "anchor" stores closes, or if vacancies linger, other vendors quickly suffer. And(15)the malls that were built in the heyday of the genre are starting to look shop soiled. The new fashion is for mixed-use developments, or the outdoor malls that are designed to look like a friendly downtown shopping district. In some cities, people are returning to actual downtown shopping districts, as new urbanists always dreamed they would.

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