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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]
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.
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.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
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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.
In 2003, the former Boston Store locations were demolished at both East Towne and West Towne and Dick's Sporting Goods stores were constructed at a total cost of $5.5 million. [8] Those stores opened at the end of October 2004. [9] Boston Store remained in both malls in the former location originally occupied by Prange's. [citation needed]
Southridge Mall is a regional shopping mall located in the Milwaukee County suburbs of Greendale and Greenfield, Wisconsin.At 1,177,783 square feet (109,420 square metres) it is Wisconsin's second largest mall behind Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, tied with Fox River Mall in Appleton.