In his quarterly report, Steb Hipple, a research associate with the college’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, attributed Bristol’s meteoric 15.2-percent sales increase — from $252 million to $290.3 million over the same period last year — to the opening of more stores in the Pinnacle, a mega-shopping center off Interstate 81 just this side of the state line.
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