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DALLAS-In keeping with a corporate-led campaign to replace select mall locations, the Retail Brand Alliance Inc. has signed a 10-year relocation lease with options for a Brooks Brothers store. The high-end retailer will open in January 2007 in West Village, vacating a 10-year spot in NorthPark Mall.

Henry S. Miller IV, who teamed with Henry S. Miller Commercial's Dan Shoevlin as the tenant reps, tells GlobeSt.com that the corporate strategy and NorthPark Mall's proximity to West Village blocked the chance of adding rather than replacing a location. "We also looked at Highland Park Village," he says. "We couldn't accommodate them and we didn't want to duplicate too much at High Park Village." The tony center already sports several men's and women's apparel stores.

West Village's near 30,000-sf expansion at the southeast corner of McKinney Avenue and Cityplace West Boulevard "made a compelling argument to them that it's the place to go," Miller adds. "We feel like they won't be losing any customers in moving to West Village, but will gain customers." He says Brooks Brothers' 10,000-sf lease expires next month, but the brokers have cut a deal for the retailer to stay until the West Village expansion and the new 9,606-sf end cap is complete.