托福阅读机经背景：＂拯救＂大型购物中心.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读机经背景：＂拯救＂大型购物中心 Still, when Graham Weston, the company’s co-founder and chairman, suggested that they move into a shopping mall, staff were sceptical. The mall was vacant. Its site, the encircled suburb of Windcrest, was slightly grotty, not least because of the huge dead mall right off the highway. 即便如此，当公司的创建人之一兼主席Graham Weston表示他们要搬到一家购物中心时，员工们都还将信将疑。那时候商场是空置的，地点位于Windcrest这个被包围着的郊区，外观不太好看，相当重要的原因是这座空无一人的大型商场正位于公路的出口处。 Building a campus from scratch, however, would have taken several years at least. Anyway, the place was cheap. “Nobody wants a mall any more,” says J