"Since the end of 2010, in the aftermath of the Great Recession, for eight years straight more new stores have opened in the U.S. than have closed."

-Adam Ifshin, founder and chief executive of Elmsford, N.Y.-based DLC Management Corp., which owns and/or operates 325 shopping centers and other retail assets, in the Forbes.com post, “The Bogus ‘Retail Apocalypse’ Looks More Like a Renaissance.”