Mall 205 is still lacking a pulse, but surgery is imminent.Beginning this fall, a $15 million infusion that includes acompletely renovated shell and three new pads fronting WashingtonStreet will add strong new retailers and restaurateurs where nowthere is old and weak. The changes will displace more than a dozentenants, but many new jobs will be created, and things will be muchimproved for those that remain, Bruning said.

Instead of names like Emporium, Montgomery Ward and "a verytired Rite Aid," Bruning says there'll be Home Depot, afull-service 24-Hour Fitness and Mars Music, a Tampa, Fla.-basedcompany just beginning to place superstores on the West Coast.Instead of a sea of parking from street to storefronts, Pier OneImports, Red Robin and one other restaurant will add roadsideappeal.

Moreover, instead of under $10 million in revenue from the northend of the mall where Emporium and Rite Aid operated, the HomeDepot that replaces them should alone generate $110 million inannual sales, Bruning said. Instead of an overall net operatingincome of $1.6 million, it will generate $4.5 million, he said.