sub-lease on the grounds that Pay-Less was a much lower caliber store than Shoe Town and that other tenants in the center strenuously objected to this reduction in the quality of the "tenant-mix". Wiener responded that Pay-Less was comparable to Shoe Town, that it considered the refusal unreasonable, and that this refusal terminated the lease as of December 31, 1980. Thereupon, Maurin-Ogden again wrote Wiener alleging that Pay-Less was indeed inferior because it did not sell a line of sportswear as did Shoe Town, that the other tenants objected to Pay-Less, and that as one budget shoe store had failed at the location it had no reason to believe that another would succeed.
Wiener vacated the store by December 31, 1980, and the premises remained empty until August 1,Amazon isn’t an unstoppable beast after all. It was beaten in New York City by its own hubris and miscalculations.

After facing local opposition to its plan to open a large corporate office in New York, Amazon said on Thursday that it was dropping the idea altogether, along with a pledge to hire up to 25,000 for its new location over a period of years. Whether Amazon’s pullout is good or bad for New York City will be debated tirelessly by politicians and urban residents for months. It is a clear loss for Amazon and a wake-up call for all tech companies.

Amazon misjudged by setting inflated expectations for what its “HQ2” could deliver. The company had a yearlong beauty contest for hundreds of cities in North America, promising that