Time 100 – Beyoncé defies the music industry

Not content with being one of the most successful female artists of all time, Beyoncé is now trying to push the boundaries of how she connects with her fans. Her most recent album was released without warning alongside her ‘What is Pretty’ campaign, and still sold over one million copies on iTunes within five days. Going digital has clearly worked for Beyoncé.

Beyoncé managed to keep the album a secret between starting recording in 2012 and the surprise launch in December 2013. She released it to her 12 million Instagram followers over the social network with just the word ‘surprise’. Beyoncé said, "I didn't want to release my music the way I've done it, I am bored with that. I feel likeon the site.

"Over the last few years, Costco has spent a significant amount of time and resources on seven other parcels for potential development," wrote Theodore R. Johnson, Costco's authorized representative, in a Dec. 22, 2014, letter to Scott Koehnke, DNR water management specialist.

Addresses were not identified in the document for confidentiality reasons, he said, but he would share more information on the seven passed-over sites if the DNR requested it. Those sites ranged in size from 11.02 acres to 20.3 acres and were evaluated between August 2011 and December 2013.

The letter gives broad clues to location and tells why each was unsuitable.

A redevelopment site near the Fox River Mall was rejected because "existing tenants' terms made the site cost prohibitive" and an existing shopping center considered for