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1929 - Wilmington Dry Goods in business. [18] 1930 - Population: 106,597. [11] 1937 - Main Post Office built. 1942 - Crest Theater in business. [13] 1950 – Population: 110,356. [11] 1961 - Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority lawsuit decided by U.S Supreme Court, broadening the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.
The mall housed numerous niche stores, eateries, and other retailers throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In November 1970 the Cinemagic movie theater opened in the mall. Grant City became Kmart in 1976, while Wilmington Dry Goods became Value City. Value City closed in 2008 due to the chains bankruptcy and became Burlington Coat Factory. [3]
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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Downtown Wilmington Commercial Historic District is a national historic district in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 44 buildings in the city's downtown, most on North Market Street between 6th and 9th avenues.
Location: 1541 Eastwood Road, Wilmington. Expected completion date: 2027 This mixed-use project, which will feature 351 apartments, shopping, restaurants and a hotel, is currently being built at a ...
This is a list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware: [1]. For reasons of size, the listings in New Castle County are divided into three lists: those in Wilmington, other listings in northern New Castle County (north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal), and those in southern New Castle County (south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal).
From 1940 to 1997, the F. W. Woolworth Company operated the store, this location being one of the last to close. The building then housed a Happy Harry's drug store and pharmacy for several years until that company was purchased by Walgreens in 2007.