Chain Store Snubbed: Leaders of upper crust...

Chain Store Snubbed: Leaders of upper crust Palm Beach, Fla., say the Limited clothing stores would attract the wrong element and should remain limited to shopping malls and other less ritzy venues. But the landlord, Burton Handelsman, who wants to rent to the chain on exclusive Worth Avenue--an East Coast equivalent of Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive--is crying snobbery and will seek to overturn the Town Council’s ban as “arbitrary and capricious,” in Palm Beach Circuit Court beginning this week. According to town ordinances drafted in 1980, large retail stores must prove the majority of their customers do not come from “off-island locations,” said John DeVault, a lawyer representing the town.