Around 2007, a mirage dubbed Xanadu materialized by the side of the New Jersey Turnpike, a great jumble of structures wrapped in an assortment of brightly colored patterns, like a gift table of the gods. It’s a vision that has drawn investors to the paved-over promise of the Meadowlands, where a new shopping center has risen out of the spongy earth. We hold it as an article of faith that even, say, a ruinous dud of a mall can lift itself up by keeping people supplied with three-packs of undershirts and oversize candy. In this country, we believe in opportunity and vanquishing impossible odds.
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