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The Boston Store was one of three anchor stores when Brookfield Square opened in 1967. Brookfield Square was the Milwaukee area's first enclosed mall, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society.
The Boston Store chain closed in 2018. Conceptual ideas for the Brookfield Square site include apartments, a hotel and office buildings. The Boston Store chain closed in 2018.
Brookfield Square was built in 1967 as a three-anchor, one-story shopping mall with 60 stores and services, including the two same anchors it has today, plus a Sears, a Kohl's Food Store, a Woolworth's, T. A. Chapman's, and Walgreens. Kohl's left the mall in 1977 and its space was converted into a Houlihan's restaurant.
Throughout the 1920s, and 1930s the Boston Store was run by Philip Irving Stone. His nephew, Irving Stone, worked as a manager and, beginning in 1927, dated Broadway ingenue and later MGM movie star Jeanette MacDonald for a time. In December 1933, 600 of the store's 1000 employees walked out in a famous White Collar union strike. [2]
1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m 2) [1] ... Brookfield Square, ... a Value City furniture store moved into a portion of the old Boston Store building but closed in ...
Better Cowork LLC sold the former Boston Store Furniture Gallery, 18615 W. Bluemound Road, for $1.5 million to the operator of Andy's gas stations.
The mall was designed by the architect Lou Resnick and developed by Jacobs, Visconsi, and Jacobs Co., of Cleveland, Ohio, the developer of Brookfield Square in Milwaukee. [1] The 56,000-square-foot (5,200 m 2) Manchester's store was later replaced by a food court. West Towne is the sister mall to the East Towne Mall which opened a year later.
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