Macy's shutting Chestnut Hill store, starting Sunday
By adamg - 1/4/11 - 3:33 pm
Management informed workers at the store of the impending clearance sale and shutdown today. One might assume from this the move from the upper mall to the old Bloomingdale's standalone site down below didn't work out too well.
Comments
That is some good commercial space there (the lower lot)
I used to go there all the time for gift shopping. Easy parking and easy access to a decent half mall.
What is up with the Omni foods place though? It seems like the plans for that place have been stalled for years.
Final Sales Start Jan. 9
Macy's Closing Boston-Area Store
Final Sales Start Jan. 9
"A final clearance sale at the Chestnut Hill store will begin on Sunday, Jan. 9, and will run for about 10 weeks."
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/mostpopular/26366459/detail.html
History of this store?
The Boston.com story says the store "was opened as a Macy’s in 2007 after being converted from a Bloomingdale’s". But isn't there still a Bloomingdale's in this shopping center? Was there never a Filene's or Jordan Marsh before this Macy's opened?
Upper vs. lower, with a player to be named later
There are actually two Chestnut Hill malls, the fancy-shmancy upper mall and the lower strip mall along Rte. 9 (where the theater, Shaw's and Legal are).
Filene's/Macy's was in the upper mall as was part of Bloomingdale's. There was a separate Bloomindale's in this weird white building in the lower mall. In 2007, they swapped: Macy's moved into the lower building, Bloomingdale's consolidated its two store into the old Macy's in the upper mall.
Forget Macys - Ann Taylor is shutting down in Wellesley
The Swellesley Report, well, reports.
NOTE: Wellesley has its own Filene's-like hole, where the Wellesley Inn used to be, but it's surrounded by a nice, white Wellesleyish wooden fence.
What are we, swiss cheese?
Why can't we have a nice white wooden fence - what's around our hole - a chain link fence with holes like swiss cheese? Sheesh - if DTX wants to get all foofy they should put up a wooden fence and hire Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to whitewash it. That should be the first project of the new B.I.D!
Standalone Macy*s stores
Standalone Macy*s stores don't work anymore. Standalone department stores in general are a thing of the past. It was a setup for failure.
I'm both surprised and not surprised at this. It's obvious why I'm not surprised, but more importantly, I'm surprised because that Macy*s is relatively equidistant from downtown Boston and the Natick Collection. It's a HUGE blow to the company portfolio and now loyal Macy*s shoppers in that area have to either fight (literally) their way to Boston or the Natick Collection via Rt 9.
It's cool how the Mall at Chestnut Hill has the only Bloomies in Mass, but do they really need 2 MASSIVE 3-story stores?
Standalone?
This was part of a mall, so hardly "standalone". Also, there's still a "standalone" Macy's (formerly a Filene's) in Belmont Center.
It's actually not part of the
It's actually not part of the Mall at Chestnut Hill. The standalone store is completely unaffiliated with the Mall.
http://www.simon.com/mall/malldirectory.aspx?id=786
Edit: Ok, it's technically part of the Chestnut Hill Shopping Center, but it's pretty much on its own. I don't consider a strip mall to even be a mall. My point is simply that the non-attached stores that are sitting in the middle of their own parking lot have lost their oomph.
"Huge" blow to the company portfolio?
Probably not. The MyMacy's regionalization plan is the only thing pulling that retailer from the tank. Losing a location equidistant to three other high-profile locations (DTX, Cambridgeside, Natick) creates something the other locations likely lacked for years -- demand. It also allows the company to better tailor its inventory to each store. The Chestnut Hill location wasn't urban or suburban enough to do such things, but the other stores definitely have those distinctions: Smaller consumer living spaces, different clothing needs, even different patterns of discretionary spending.
I would put money down that
I would put money down that if Macy*s was still in the Mall at Chestnut Hill, this closure would not be happening.
Can't wait
for the sales!
Ticketmaster?
Wasn't this one of the only real-life Ticketmaster outlets left in the area? I remember going there to get U2 tix a few years ago because watching your browser fail to refresh really blows.
Yes, it's one of the only
Yes, it's one of the only ones left in the area. All of the Simon Malls, except the Mall at Chestnut Hill, are still Ticketmaster outlets.
http://www.ticketmaster.com/h/retaillocations.html
Search Boston.
Hm, do FYEs (strawberries) no
Hm, do FYEs (strawberries) no longer sell them?
FYE's
FYE's are not ticketmaster but tickets.com which sells tickets to venues like the Worcester Palladium.
Not listed
So, that's another one gone.
There's still the Arsenal Mall in Watertown, I guess. But other than that, it's either downtown (with everyone else at Copley Square) or a decent distance outside of town.
Blah.
Isn't there a Macys...
...at the Cambridge Galleria?
Yes, but it's not a Ticketmaster outlet
which is what he's looking for.
Obviously....
...I was not following degree of post indentations carefully enough. ;~}