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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.
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.
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.
It was the first full-line Nordstrom store to open in the state of Wisconsin. Nordstrom wanted to meet such high demand, and Milwaukee was the largest metropolitan area without a Nordstrom. [12] The Container Store also opened in 2015. [13] Boston Store closed in 2018 due to Bon-Ton filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closing all ...