Vacant spaces on the East Shore: More than 100 empty stores including a number of former big box retailers
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
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While the West Shore has a number of empty retail spaces, the East Shore area surrounding Harrisburg seems to have many more.
Bon-Ton, HHGregg, A.C. Moore and Wolf Furniture have all closed for good in recent years, leaving behind large, vacant stores on the East shore, some of which have been empty for years. Other retailers like Macy’s have closed stores as they try to focus on more profitable regions.
And the empty spaces didn’t just pop up yesterday as the “retail apocalypse” has been going on for years. But last year’s shutdowns, capacity restrictions and a decrease in foot traffic related to COVID-19 have left numerous retailers closing their doors.
Gish’s Furniture to expand central Pa. location
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
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A furniture store in Lower Allen Township plans to add on to its store.
Gish’s Furniture store will add a 6,800 square foot addition to the rear of the existing 11,538-square-foot retail building at 3424 Simpson Ferry Road.
The addition will be added on to the back of the property where the rear parking lot is located.
Gish’s Furniture also plans to update ADA access in the front of the building and reconfigure the parking in the back of the building.
The final land development plan for the project was recommended by the Lower Allen Township Planning Commission on Tuesday night and could be voted on by the Lower Allen Township board of commissioners as early as next week.
Jan 13, 2021
WARREN Loves Furniture, which in May acquired the former Levin Furniture stores in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the three area stores are going out of business.
The stores in Niles, Boardman and Hermitage, Pa., are among 13 locations selling off their merchandise in a deal Loves struck with Connecticut-based Planned Furniture Promotions (PFP) in December.
Michigan-based Loves, owned by US Assets Inc. in Dallas, purchased 27 former Levin Furniture, Art Van Furniture and Wolf Furniture stores from Art Van Furniture LLC with plans to rebrand them Loves Furniture, but quickly ran into financial trouble.
The ‘retail apocalypse’ continues: 13 major chains that went out of business in 2020
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
Posted Jan 03, 2021
Stein Mark on the Carlisle Pike is closing. The company had filed for bankruptcy earlier this month. (Megan Lavey-Heaton/PennLive.com)
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For brick-and-mortar retailers, 2020 has been more of the same “retail apocalypse,” just at a faster pace.
Over the past decade we’ve seen stores were once mainstays in Pennsylvania Bon-Ton, HH Gregg and Toys R’ Us close. For a number of struggling retailers the pandemic just brought on the inevitable faster.
There are 13 retailers on our list below that have closed all of their stores or are in the process of doing so. In addition to these 13, Microsoft closed all of its stores as well.