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A 1993 renovation added a two-level wing anchored by a new Sears department store and included a new food court, creating a T-shaped floor plan. Also in 1993, G. Fox parent, May Company, acquired Boston-based Filene's and merged the two department stores together under Filene's, thusly Meriden Mall's G. Fox was rebranded as Filene's. [citation ...
The vacant Read's anchor spot was demolished in 2007; in its place, a two-floor Target store was constructed and opened in October 2008. [5] In September 2008, it was announced that Steve & Barry's would be closing as part of plan to close 103 stores nationwide. The store closed September 24, 2008. [9]
Price Chopper was an early innovator in the conversion of conventional stores to superstores and combination (food and drug) units, as well as operating stores that are open 24 hours a day. The first Price Chopper opened in the late 1970s in Oneonta, New York.
Ridgeway Shopping Center is a 365,411 sq ft (33,947.8 m 2) [1] shopping center in Stamford, Connecticut, now classifying as a power center but when first opened in 1947, the first department store-anchored suburban shopping center in the Eastern United States. [2] [3]
On Jan. 27, 2021, the Wallingford-based Connecticut Food Bank merged with the Bloomfield, CT-based Foodshare, Inc. [5] The new entity was renamed Connecticut Foodshare. Board of directors for each organization voted to approve the merge after Connecticut Food Bank’s chief executive, Valarie Shultz-Wilson, left her job in February 2020 and the ...
In 1962, the sixth branch of the Alexander's department store chain opened. [8] Following an early fire at the west end of the mall, a Caldor discount store was built as the new anchor. In 1981, the mall was enclosed. The mall underwent a renovation in 1990, which added the Skyview Cafe food court, and lost anchor Alexander's.
The 761,000-square-foot (70,700 m 2) mall is the eighth largest in Connecticut, with space for about 130 stores and restaurants. [ citation needed ] The mall's three anchors are a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m 2 ) [ citation needed ] Macy's , Barnes and Noble , and Pickleball America that opened in the nearly 80,000-square-foot (7,432 m 2 ...
The company, originally called Waremart, was founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1967 by Ralph Ward and Bud Williams as a no-frills, warehouse-style grocery store focusing on low prices. [ 7 ] [ 13 ] In 1985, Waremart employees established an employee stock ownership plan and purchased a majority stake of Waremart from the Ward family, making the ...