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Shop Till You Drop

Some of the country's biggest retailers will be lining up along a bluff just south of Cleveland, over the next year. And as City View Center rises above the heavily traveled I-480/I-77 interchange, local officials are trying to craft a new deal that will re-energize the proposed Steelyard Commons development in the Flats. But some critics question whether "big box" retail projects like these are the answer to Northeast Ohio's struggling economy. ideastream's David C. Barnett has this report.