For the past three years, new and recovering retailers — and developers willing to take risks on adaptive-reuse projects — have slowly filled some of the Phoenix area's scores of vacant big-box store buildings.
The bad news? Tricky spaces still outnumber willing tenants by far, according to local real-estate firms, and the popularity of online shopping continues to drive physical retailers out of town.
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