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Pinecrest stores try to dry out.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Publication Date: 30-AUG-05
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald

Byline: Jim Wyss

Aug. 30--Hurricane Katrina showed no respect at the Dadeland Plaza shopping center in Pinecrest. The storm flooded the parking lot and poured beneath the doors of more than a dozen shops and restaurants -- soaking carpets, swelling furniture and eating into drywall.

This week business owners were finding that Katrina had not meted out her destruction equitably. While those with tiles and drainage were virtually unscathed, others with carpet and parquet were too damaged to open. But most found themselves in the same boat as thousands of other South Florida companies Monday -- trying to dry out, assess the damage and get on with making money.

Here's how some of the stores at Dadeland Plaza, in the 9400 and 9500 blocks of...

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