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FREE KISSES IN STORE FOR PASSENGERS AT LAGUARDIA’S CENTRAL TERMINAL
Queens, NY —
(February 2, 2008) This Valentine’s Day holiday will be especially sweet for LaGuardia passengers when they are treated to free chocolate kisses from the Food & Shops at LaGuardia’s Central Terminal Building.
Passengers traveling through the Central Terminal Building can also take advantage of the Valentine’s Day ‘Gifts for Your Sweetie’ shopping program, designed to help busy travelers shop for the special people in their lives.
Retailers such as The Body Shop, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Store and Borders, among others, will offer special ‘Gifts for Your Sweetie’ tables in front of their stores that will showcase a variety of Valentine’s Day gifts ranging from the traditional to the truly unique.
“The Valentine’s Day ‘Gifts for Your Sweetie ’ program is a convenient and unique way to help busy travelers pick up that last minute gift for their special someone,” says Lillian Tan, Vice President and General Manager of MarketPlace Development, the retail development company that manages the food and shops program in the terminal. “The chocolate kisses are a way for all of us at the Food & Shops to thank our customers and wish them a Happy Valentine’s Day.”
Chocolate kisses will be distributed on Friday, February 13 and Saturday, February 14. The ‘Gifts for your Sweetie’ table promotion will begin on Monday, February 9 and run through Monday, February 16.
MarketPlace Development is the private partner with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the $18 million, 50,000-square-foot redevelopment of the food and retail program at the Central Terminal Building, the largest of LaGuardia’s four terminals. A Massachusetts based retail development and management company, MarketPlace Development also handles the development, management and leasing of all retail, food and beverage, and passenger service concessions in the seven domestic and international terminals at Philadelphia International Airport.
For more information on the Food & Shops at LaGuardia Airport’s Central Terminal Building, visit www.ShopLaGuardia.com. For press materials and photography, contact Cynthia Roberson, at croberson@ciicnews.com or 845/358-3920 x14.
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