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When Kmart purchased Sears and moved its headquarters to Chicago in 2006, the building, then housing 2,000, was vacated; art from the corporate art collection, including a tapestry by Pablo Picasso, a signed Andy Warhol poster, and exhibits from the science and technology collection including a work by Alan Bean signed by US astronauts, were ...
At the height of its success, Kmart was a go-to discount store with more than 2,000 locations. In the early 2000s, the retail chain began facing some challenges, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...
Kmart's longest lasting logo, used from 1969 to 1990. Under the leadership of executive Harry Cunningham, S.S. Kresge Company opened the first Kmart-named store, at 27,000 square feet (2,500 square meters), which was referred to by Kresge as a "bantam" Kmart and was in fact originally intended to be a Kresge store until late in the planning process, on January 25, 1962, in San Fernando ...
The last remaining Kmart in the U.S. is located in the Kendale Lakes Plaza, in Miami.
Kmart had 17 locations open by the end of the year, and reached 162 stores by 1966. By 1976, Kmart had expanded to 1,206 locations and over 2,000 stores by 1981. But by the early 2000s, the ...
In 1990, Kmart acquired the company. [7] At the time of acquisition, Kmart had opened two sporting goods stores in Metro Detroit under the Sports Giant name and converted these stores to the Sports Authority name. [8] Five years later, The Sports Authority had expanded to 136 stores in 26 states, and was spun off from parent Kmart.
The 1001 Patton Ave. Kmart closed in 2019 and then was subsequently bought by the Black Mountain-based supermarket chain in 2019 for a whopping $8.5 million. We've reported extensively about the ...
The site chosen for the mall was on the southeastern side of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, just off U.S. Route 219 and on the former site of a drive-in theater. Plans called for a 650,000-square-foot (60,000 m 2 ), 70-store enclosed shopping mall with three anchor stores : Kmart , Sears , and Johnstown-based Penn Traffic .