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Macy's will be closing its Cottonwood Mall location, leaving the Coronado Center location as the only location in Albuquerque. While I no longer live in NM, when I did this was my mom's favorite store to shop at Cottonwood, since we lived in Rio Rancho.
Lately most of my Macy's purchases have been online when they have their free shipping over $25 sales. I used those opportunities to buy two IZOD Advantage Polo shirts at a time either for myself or friends/family combined with a $15 off $40 coupon, which is almost like getting two shirts for the price of one without free shipping or coupons.
With the loss of two anchor stores at Cottonwood Mall (the other loss being Sports Authority which went under), I wonder what will be the mall's future. Simon Property Group has unloaded the mall to a spinoff company known as Washington Prime Group, which consisted mostly of Simon's lower performing malls as well as their strip malls.
The Coronado store is much larger with better selection. Except for shoes, that department is way too small in both stores. I'm not surprised that the Cottonwood store is closing.
The Coronado store is much larger with better selection. Except for shoes, that department is way too small in both stores. I'm not surprised that the Cottonwood store is closing.
I agree; they don't need two stores in the same city. They can't close their main store, though; that place is a lifeline for too many people in NM! In Santa Fe, we don't have anyplace to get affordable, fashionable items for work or even leisure.
Were both locations originally Macy's or were they Marshal Fields/Foleys/Robinson May stores acquired in the merger and re-branded?
The Cottonwood location was originally a Foley's. Originally Coronado Center had both a Macy's and a Foley's; after they merged Macy's chose to stay in the former Foley's space since it was more centrally located in the mall. The original Macy's space at Coronado Center is now split between Dick's Sporting Goods and Gordmans.
When Cottonwood Mall opened in 1996 it had Foley's, Dillard's, Mervyn's, JC Penney and Montgomery Ward as its anchor stores. The Montgomery Ward space became Sears pretty quickly after Montgomery Ward's demise in 2001. When Mervyn's ceased to exist in 2008 its space took a lot longer to fill.
The Foley's at Cottonwood Mall didn't become Macy's until 2006.
In 1996 Coronado Center had Sears, Macy's (Broadway Southwest), JC Penney, Foley's and Mervyn's as its anchor stores. Across the street, a still thriving Winrock Center had Dillard's and Montgomery Ward as anchor stores. JC Penney had moved from Winrock to Coronado in 1990. Its old space at Winrock became the Dillard's Men and Children's store.
I'm thinking maybe the JC Penney Home store on Menaul. There's hardly ever anyone there when I've been.
Given how much of that store is simply mattresses and bedroom sets, and how low the rents probably are for that location (it's not near a mall), it may have a lower threshold for "busy". Further, it never seemed particularly deserted to me.
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