• Ann Taylor — Is closing 117 of its 959 women’s clothing stores. By year’s end the company will have closed 25 Ann Taylor and 39 Loft stores with the remainder to be closed in 2009. The company has an Ann Taylor store in La Encantada and Loft stores in Tucson Mall and Park Place Mall, none of which are among the announced closures.
• Bennigan’s Grill and Tavern — All 200 company-owned restaurants were closed as part of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation filing in July. The single Tucson location, a franchised restaurant at 350 S. Freeway, had closed in June.
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• Caché — Women’s specialty retailer closed 14 stores but is also opening stores and currently has 295 across the country, including stores in Tucson Mall and La Encantada.
• Charming Shoppes Inc. — Operator of plus-size womens apparel stores, the company has closed 150 of approximately 2,360 stores. None of the closings were in Tucson, where the company has Lane Bryant stores in Tucson Mall, Tucson Spectrum and at 7260 E. Broadway; a Fashion Bug store at 1193 W. Irvington Road; and a Catherines Plus Sizes store at 4730 E. Broadway.
• Circuit City — Announced Nov. 3 it will close 155 of its 721 stores by the end of the year, including 13 of its 16 stores in Arizona. All 13 Arizona stores are in the Phoenix market, which the company says it is pulling out of entirely. It says it will continue to operate its two stores in Tucson, at 5530 E. Broadway and 4380 N. Oracle Road. The only other Arizona store that will remain open is in Yuma.
• CompUSA — Liquidated all 103 of its stores in January. The company had one Tucson store, at 4841 N. Stone Ave.
• CostPlus World Market — Trimmed its count of stores by about 6 percent closing 18 of 314 locations but keeping its two stores in Tucson, at 5975 E. Broadway and 4821 N. Stone Ave.
• Dillard’s — The Arkansas-based department store closed three underperforming stores and now has 330 stores, including Tucson Mall and Park Place Mall.
• Disney Store — Closed 98 of its 322 North American stores after being reacquired in March by the Disney Co. There is one Disney Store in Tucson, in Tucson Mall.
• Ethan Allen — Closed 12 retail design centers and two service centers. It has one store in Tucson, at 5621 N. Oracle Road.
• Foot Locker — Closed 140 stores out of more than 3,500 in North America. It has three Foot Locker stores in Tucson, at Tucson Mall, Park Place Mall and Santa Cruz Plaza; one Lady Foot Locker store in Tucson Mall; and two Champs Sports stores, in Tucson Mall and El Con Mall.
• Friedman’s/Crescent Jewelers — Liquidated and closed 377 of 565 of its stores as of the end of July. Both Tucson stores, in Tucson Mall and Park Place Mall, were closed.
• Gap — Is closing 85 of its 2,677 stores but is also repositioning and opening others. Most of the stores being closed are branded Gap stores. In Tucson, the company has Gap and Banana Republic stores in Park Place Mall and Tucson Mall, and Old Navy stores in Tucson Mall, Park Place Mall and Foothills Mall.
• Hollywood Video — The nation’s second largest video rental retailer closed 542 stores, plus another 378 operated under the name Movie Gallery under Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, which ended in May. It closed one Tucson store, 2160 E. Broadway. It continues to operate four other stores, at 2802 N. Campbell Ave., 3780 S. 16th Ave., 1902 E. Irvington Road and 3901 E. Grant Road.
• Home Depot — Is closing 15 under-performing stores but none affecting Tucson. The company has 2,141 stores including 3689 E. Broadway in El Con, 4302 N. Oracle Road, 1155 W. Irvington Road and 7677 E. Broadway in Tucson; 3925 W. Costco Drive in Marana and 10855 N. Oracle Road in Oro Valley plus stores in Nogales and Sierra Vista.
• KB Toys — A Massachusetts-based toy retailer with stores located in malls, closed 156, about 26 percent of its stores a year ago after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It continues to operate in Park Place Mall, Tucson Mall and Foothills Mall in Tucson.
• Kirkland’s Home — A home decor retailer is closing 130 stores, about 37 percent of its store count, by the middle of next year. It has two stores in Tucson, in Foothills Mall and Tucson Spectrum.
• Linens ‘N Things — Is liquidating and closing all 370 of its stores. It expects to have its store at 5925 E. Broadway closed before Thanksgiving and its store at 7475 N. La Cholla Blvd. in Foothills Mall closed by mid December. The company had also planned to open a store in Oro Valley Marketplace.
• Macy’s — Closed 11 department stores this year, including a store in El Con Mall in February. The chain continues to operate department stores at Tucson Mall and Park Place Mall.
• Mervyns — The clothing retailer will liquidate and close its 149 remaining stores after the holidays. In Tucson it has three locations: in Tucson Mall, 3660 S. 16th Ave. and 5555 E. Broadway.
• Mikasa — Dinnerware and home decor retailer in January closed all 86 of its outlet stores, including one at Foothills Mall.
• Pacific Sunwear — Closed all 228 stores that were branded as Demo stores featuring “urban-style” clothes. It continues to operate PacSun stores in Park Place Mall and Tucson Mall and an outlet store in Foothills Mall.
• Pep Boys — Closed 31 locations, about 5 percent of its auto supply and repair stores. None of the closures were in Tucson, where there are five locations: 4491 E. Speedway, 1300 S. Sixth Ave., 3783 N. Oracle Road, 7227 E. 22nd St. and 4275 W. Ina Road. It also has stores in Nogales and Sierra Vista.
• Rent-A-Center — Closed 280 stores, about 8 percent of its total stores. The company continues to operate seven stores in the Tucson market, 2185 E. Irvington Road, 1990 E. Irvington Road, 2930 S. Sixth Ave., 3656 S. 16th Ave., 3985 E. Grant Road, 6990 E. 22nd St. and 4025 N. Oracle Road.
• Sharper Image — Closed all 184 stores as part of a bankruptcy liquidation. The company had one Tucson store, in Park Place Mall.
• Shoe Pavilion — Is liquidating and will have all stores closed by the end of the year. It had 117 stores when it filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. It had three stores in the Tucson market, 5566 E. Broadway, 5325 E. Calle Santa Cruz in Tucson Spectrum and 7685 N. Oracle Road in Oracle Crossings. The company had also planned to open at store in Oro Valley Marketplace.
• Sigrid Olsen — All 54 of the stores, which were operated by Liz Claiborne, were closed. It had one Tucson store, in La Encantada.
• Sprint — Closed 125 stores, about 8 percent of its total. The company continues to operate two stores in the Tucson market, 5420 E. Broadway and 4055 N. Oracle Road.
• Starbucks — Is closing 600 underperforming stores, 19 percent of its total. The company continues to operate 23 stores in the Tucson market.
• Talbots — Closed 22 stores, 2 percent of its total. The Tucson stores were not among the closures. Talbots has stores in Park Place Mall and La Encantada.
• Trans World Entertainment — Closed 100 stores, about 12 percent of its total store count. The stores, which had operated under a variety of different names including Sam Goody, Suncoast Motion Picture Company and Wherehouse Music, were united under one brand name f.y.e. (For Your Entertainment). The last remaining stores in Tucson, in Park Place Mall and Tucson Mall, closed this summer. The only location still operating in Southern Arizona is in Sierra Vista.
• Whitehall Jewelers — Is in the final stages of liquidating and closing all 373 of its specialty jewelry stores, including stores in Tucson Mall and Park Place Mall.
• Wilsons Leather — Closed 160 stores, 62 percent of its total, and converting the remaining stores into a new women’s accessories concept. The single Tucson store, in Park Place Mall, was closed and the company’s only remaining store in the state is an outlet store in Arizona Mills in Tempe.
• Zales Corp. — Closed 105 stores, 3 percent of its total. The company continues to operate a tradition jewelry store in Tucson Mall and an outlet store in Foothills Mall.
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