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For nearly four years, Missoula’s most prominent downtown retail space has remained vacant.

While the Missoula Mercantile building http://missoulian.com/news/local/missoula-mercantile-listed-for-sale-at-million/article_f7b40a48-431f-11e3-bb6f-001a4bcf887a.html has turned into little more than a billboard for art shows, what with its windows filled with posters and displays, officials say it’s an exception to an otherwise healthy downtown.

The Merc, which has been empty since Macy’s closed in 2010, has proven more difficult to fill than its Virginia-based owner expected. Octagon Partners bought the 80,000-square-foot building for $2.3 million in 2011 and put nearly another million into deconstructing it to its historically accurate bones–minus the lead and asbestos that contractors removed. But the owner is still looking for tenants willing to move in or someone to buy the site outright.

by Ketti Wilhelm

Full Story: http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/downtown/Content?oid=2049359

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