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I wouldn't hold your breath for either of those options.

If a bounce place opened there, the next post would be - Can you believe that they are charging $50 per hour for some balls and a mat?  how dare they?????

B&N is now a bad credit because their business model is in peril.  The location is hot so FRIT has no incentive to cut the rent.   FRIT is not the bad guy here and B&N is within their rights to request a rent decrease or a shorter term lease because they know their days are numbered.  This is the economy at work people.   Embrace it and be thankful for it.

Why should FRIT subsidize a bookstore that is going bankrupt because people don't buy books?  Going there to play with the train or sit and read for free doesn't pay the rent.  [/quote]

I don't think so.  Kidville is already pretty expensive for the younger set, I don't think people would blink an eyeball at having a closer indoor athletic option for their kids rather than having to trek out to Rockville or Laurel.[/quote]

Kidville tried alread on Bethesda Row - in what was probably much cheaper space - and didn't succeed. They're in Rockville now.[/quote]

They're still open in Bethesda: http://www.kidville.com/bethesda

At least I hope so, or our nanny has been lying about where she took DD this week!

I think you mean the make-a-whatever place on the same block upstairs, that was owned by Tom Cruse's wife (forgot her name).

Kidville does OK since they're in the basement and get cheap rent since no retailer would want to move there.

B&N space is prime retail... no way to make a kid bounce-y place work financially.

My friend is in retail on the other side of Bethesda (Woodmont Triangle). Rents on Bethesda Row are 3x that of where he is. It's tough to make it work.[/quote]

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