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A fourth store in the Wyoming Valley Mall near Wilkes-Barre opened in 1971. [9] Like many other major department stores in the 1970s, however, suburbanization and the growth of indoor shopping malls led to declining sales of large department stores in Allentown's central business district. In 1975, Zollinger's was still profitable, but in 1976 ...
The Old Allentown Historic District was established on September 6, 1978, by City Ordinance #12314 and was certified by the Pennsylvania State Historical and Museum Commission on September 26, 1978. The neighborhood was laid out in the original plan for Allentown by order of William Allen in 1762, and developed as Allentown grew northward and ...
Entrance to Ross Stores at South Mall, June 2015. Hess's South, an early satellite location of the Hess's downtown Allentown department store, opened at the site of the mall in 1971. [2] Hess's built a modest enclosed mall on the north side of the department store in 1975, adding a Weis Markets location and several specialty shops. [2]
Hess's, originally known as Hess Brothers, was a department store chain based in Allentown, Pennsylvania.The company was founded a single store in 1897, and grew to nearly 80 stores by its commercial peak in the late 1980s.
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. [9] It is the third-most populous city in Pennsylvania with a population of 125,845 as of the 2020 census and the most populous city in the Lehigh Valley metropolitan area, which had a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area ...
Defunct companies based in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (1 P) Defunct companies based in Pittsburgh (2 C, 1 P) Defunct department stores based in Pennsylvania (3 C, 10 P)
In 1932 and again in 1965, the Farr Building was remodeled, and the company continued to experience significant growth until the 1970s when Center City Allentown's shopping district on Hamilton Street was challenged by a significant flight of Allentown residents for the city's suburbs, which led to the development of the Lehigh Valley Mall in ...
GameCrazy attached to a Hollywood Video store. In 1999, [2] to compete in a growing video game market, Hollywood Entertainment launched a store-within-a-store [3] concept called GameCrazy. It featured the ability to buy, sell, and trade video games, systems, and accessories inside of Hollywood Video stores. [4]