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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]
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.
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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History [ edit ] The building has housed a number of businesses including a pharmacy, the Household of Faith Church, the Crosby and Hill dry goods wholesaler and retailer, the Diamond Silk Shirt and Waist Company, the Wilmington Board of Trade Builders Exchange, and John's Bargain Basement Department Store Company.
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.
A local/federal partnership built the 4,192-unit housing development, later turned over to the Wilmington Housing Authority, on about 123 acres in 1942 and '43.
Wanamaker's opened a store in Wilmington, Delaware in 1950. [25] After the New York store closed in 1954, Wanamaker's expanded to the Philadelphia suburbs, starting with the Wynnewood store in December 1954. [25] The second suburban branch opened in 1958 in Jenkintown, not far from the Strawbridge and Clothier store. [25]