Chinook New Stores

I was recently in the new section of Chinook Center mall and was taking a look at what stores were available within the mall. As of right now (and from what I could see) there is only one store front that we would be interested in perusing as His Man Friday. It is located on the second floor next to the elevators/Eddie Bauer in the new section. It is a little bit bigger than what we are looking for for our store, but this store can be sectioned off into two store. This would cost a little bit more money innitially because we would have to pay for the sectioning off of the two store, but this would help us because we wouldnt be paying as much rent for more floor space than we actually need.

This leads to my thoughts about rent....for a store size like His Man Friday's, we are looking at approximately $180,000/ year to rent out the size of space we need. It would be interesting however to figure out if they offer some sort of discount for brand new stores coming into the mall...I am not sure what Chinook's protocol is on this sort of thing, but it would be interesting to see if they offer something like that or if they are flexible on the rent price depending on what kind of store it is...