Yet other merchants are opening stores nearby, even without any assurance of seeing a shopping center rise on the vacant site.

But with every high-profile arrest, new merchants and manufacturers open their doors to take their place, industry experts said.

This was also the year that the first merchant, Laban Lemert, opened for business out of a log house.

After all, the merchant had stood up and opened his mouth as if to speak.

In 2009-2010, several new national and local merchants opened in the area.

Yet there were bright spots along this decadent block; stores that enterprising merchants had opened in hope of mass business.

The accused merchant opened his mouth as if to protest, but the Cadi gave him no time.

And merchants, eager to lure buyers, opened early - in some places well before dawn.

The merchants in the small shops around the square opened their doors to the humidity and ran their ceiling fans.

A woman was critically wounded in the same neighborhood when another merchant opened fire on looters.