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Real estate pros see brighter future for blighted Las Vegas shopping center

At the Rainbow Dunes Centre, shoppers used to stroll the aisles of Kmart, buy shoes at Payless and chow down at a Chinese buffet. In more recent years, the “customers” were kicking through walls, trashing the parking lot and ripping out copper.

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And at first glance, anyone who’d driven past the abandoned, beat-up office complex on Durango Drive at Hacienda Avenue the past few years might lump this with the rest, figuring it was just another rundown project that flopped with the economy. But this mess had nothing to do with the recession.

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