This post was written by Bethany Babcock and  originally featured on Forbes.com to read the full content please view the link below.

Commercial real estate investors, lenders and service providers are cautiously reading the headlines of yet another store closure announcement. The latest is another household name: Payless Shoes. The announcements seem to place yet another nail in the coffin of a dying industry, yet commercial real estate professionals feel differently. Are stakeholders turning a blind eye to the inevitable, or seeing this as a piece of a larger puzzle?

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