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Exchange Street is a main commercial thoroughfare in the Old Port of Portland, Maine, United States. Originally laid out in 1724, [ 1 ] today it features a number of designer clothing stores, as well as several small, locally owned businesses, [ 2 ] including Sherman's Maine Coast Books .
The area includes "out-of-town" style stores with car parks located outside the shopping area. A highly visible building in the area is the Plantasia - a large triangular tropical plant house. [ 1 ] Entertainment in the area include a 10 screen UCI On 29 September 1989 until 2006 (Then: Odeon cinema [ 2 ] ) and a ten pin bowling alley.
The business regularly announces new store openings in large tranches, for example in November 2013, it was announced that The Range planned to open 40 stores in the period of 2013 to 2016. [10] New store openings such as the Swansea store [ 11 ] regularly gain local press attention.
Before entering politics, former Maine Governor Paul LePage worked as the general manager of the Marden's location in Waterville. In 2009, the retailer expanded in Southern Maine with the opening of their Scarborough location. [2] They took over a 119,000-square-foot space that formerly housed a Walmart store.
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On June 26, 2020, it was announced that Sears would be closing 28 stores nationwide, including the store in The Maine Mall. [citation needed] The Sears store subsequently closed on September 13, 2020. [16] Forever 21 also closed in 2020. [17] Olympia Sports closed in 2022, after the company liquidated. [18] It was replaced by Team Spirit. [19]
A painting by titled "Portrait of Girl" by Dutch painter Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn sold for $1.4 at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine on August 24, 2024.
Auburn Mall opened in 1979. Its original anchor stores were J. C. Penney and Porteous. [1] In 1990, Equity announced plans to expand the mall with a new wing and a Sears as a third anchor store. This would have replaced an existing Sears in Lewiston. [2] Porteous closed at the mall in 2002. [3]