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Points taken, JAI. You also raise an excellent question, one that I can only guess at answering.

I would think that it's a top priority of commercial property owners to keep them occupied, and that there are more factors than just their intention to make money off their properties that determine whether that happens.

In some cases, out-of-town entities let the properties sit vacant, probably to write them off as tax deductions because of depreciation; in other cases, maybe there's no capital to improve the property; and in others, maybe the location's just wrong.

So, there are as many possibilities to explain it as there are property owners and businesses.

Again, though, really good question.