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In 1980, the Hamilton Watch Company was renamed Hamilton Technology and was moved out of the complex into downtown Lancaster. [8] A proposal was put forth in 1981 by a Philadelphia -based real estate developer to convert the complex into 202 apartments and 61 townhouses , but it fell through; its failure being blamed on "high interest rates and ...
The Hamilton Watch Company was housed on a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) complex in Lancaster. Hamilton took possession of Aurora Watch Company's machinery shortly after incorporation. [citation needed] The first watch made under the Hamilton name was an 18-size 17-jewel pocket watch in 1893.
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 ...
Hawthorne Plaza Shopping Center – Hawthorne (1977–1999) Hemet Valley Mall – Hemet (1980–present) Hillsdale Shopping Center – San Mateo (1981–present) Hilltop Mall – Richmond (1976–2021) Horton Plaza Mall – San Diego (1985–2020, outdoor) Huntington Center – Huntington Beach (1966–2003) Imperial Valley Mall – El Centro ...
The Baird group was purchased by House of Fraser in 1970 with the Hamilton store relocated to a new building later the same year. The Bairds stores, including Hamilton, were renamed Arnotts in 1982. House of Fraser sold the Hamilton store in 1989 to a management buyout led by Murdoch McMaster, after which the store reverted to the Bairds name.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Location of the city of Lancaster in Lancaster County. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on National Register of Historic Places in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National ...
In 1970, a second Watt & Shand store opened at Park City Center as one of the anchor tenants, which enabled the company to survive the exodus of large department stores in downtown Lancaster. By 1991, the Park City store generated 65% of sales, and virtually all of the company's profit. [3] The Bon-Ton purchased Watt & Shand in 1992, for about ...