Here’s what’s coming to this central Pa. shopping center with T.J. Maxx, Five Below, Big Lots, Chipotle and Planet Fitness
Updated Jan 08, 2021;
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Big changes are coming to the Hershey Square Shopping Center in Derry Township.
Planet Fitness will open on February 17. And other new tenants include T.J. Maxx, Five Below, Big Lots, Chipotle and Where the Wild Things Play. Many of them are expected to open in the spring.
And on Thursday, officials from Comcast confirmed that an Xfinity store is expected to open in the second quarter of the year at Hershey Square. It will be located between Char Koon and a state liquor store in the former space of One Cup Joe. The store is 1,600 square feet. The store is expected to open in the second quarter of this year.
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.