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Wilmington Dry Goods entered bankruptcy protection in 1988. In May of 1989, Schottenstein Stores bought five of the seven Dry Goods stores for $13.8 million as part of a court-ordered auction. The company announced that the stores, including the Tri-State Mall location, would be renovated and reopened as Value City department stores. [ 17 ]
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.
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).
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 ...
The Baynard Boulevard Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.It encompasses 77 contributing buildings with examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Queen Anne architecture.
The war created enormous demand for goods and materials supplied by Wilmington including ships, railroad cars, gunpowder, shoes, and other war-related goods. By 1868, Wilmington was producing more iron ships than the rest of the country combined [citation needed] and it rated first in the production of gunpowder and second in carriages and ...
Delaware Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 180 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure developed in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
On October 23, 2014, the Century 21 Department Stores company of New York City opened its first location outside of the greater New York City area on a portion of the street level, and the entire second level of the Strawbridge's building. [18] Century 21 closed in 2020 as a result of the chain filing for bankruptcy and closing all stores. [19]