Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Southlands shopping center reopens 2 days after tornado - Houston Business Journal:

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Most Southlands stores reopened atnoon Tuesday, although “somse retailers and restaurants may still remain closed,” the shoppingb center said on its website. Cleanup and damages checks have been under way atthe 1.7 million-square-foor retail complex since Sunday, when a tornado touched down nearbgy at 1:49 p.m. The twister caused moderate damage at locatedat E-470 and Smoky Hill Road. Rooftop venting and air-conditioning units were damaged, windowsz were broken, and a car was Natural gas leaks alsowere noted, and authorities shut down gas servic e for a time. Southlands, which opened in 2006, is the Denvedr area’s largest shopping center by retail space.
It consists of severap freestanding buildings connected by pedestrian corridorszand streets. The complex is owned by Granitse Southlands Town Center LLC and managed by Foresf City CommercialManagement Inc. Four other tornadoes were spotteds north and east of Denver Sunday and large hail strucksome areas. As many as 3,000 Xcel Energg customers were without power for a time in parts of Auroraand

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