PHL wins specialty-retail award

If you've ever wondered how PHL's retail shops and food and beverage offerings stack up against other U.S. airports, here's one measure: The airport's speciality-retail stores in the Terminals B-C connector just won first place in an annual competition held by the Airports Council International -- North America. Since MarketPlace Philadelphia Management and its predecessors took over operating and leasing all retail space at PHL in the mid-1990s, the airport has caught up to and surpassed many in this country and abroad in what it offers travelers. In 2002, the PHL retail program won the grand prize in this same Airports Council International's annual compeitiion.