Macy's to close 3 stores in the Richmond area (Norfolk, Chesapeake: chapel, home)

[LM117]

Macy's is closing their stores at the following locations: their two-store combo at Regency Square Mall in Richmond and their store at Virginia Center Commons in Glen Allen. The stores will close in early spring of this year.

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[azsportpilot]

Macy’s Will Close 40 Stores This Spring: Here’s The List

• Irvine Spectrum, Irvine, CA
• Country Club Plaza, Sacramento, CA
• Westfield Century City, Los Angeles, CA
• Enfield Square main store, Enfield, CT
• Enfield Square furniture/home/men’s store, Enfield, CT
• North DeKalb Mall, Decatur, GA
• Kailua, HI
• Palouse Mall, Moscow, ID
• Northwoods Mall, Peoria, IL
• Cortana Mall, Baton Rouge, LA
• Valley Mall, Hagerstown, MD
• Berkshire Mall, Lanesborough, MA
• Eastfield Mall, Springfield, MA
• The Shoppes at Stadium, Columbia, MO
• Middlesex Mall, South Plainfield, NJ
• McKinley Mall main store, Buffalo, NY
• McKinley Mall home store, Buffalo, NY
• Arnot Mall, Horsehead, NY
• Hudson Valley Mall, Kingston, NY
• Eastern Hills Mall, Williamsville, NY
• Cary Towne Center, Cary, NC
• Chapel Hill Mall, Akron, OH
• Midway Mall, Elyria, OH
• Quail Springs Mall, Oklahoma City, OK
• Pony Village Mall, North Bend, OR
• Roseburg Valley Mall, Roseburg, OR
• Suburban Square, Ardmore, PA
• Century III Mall, West Mifflin, PA
• Ridgmar Mall, Ft. Worth, TX
• Chesapeake Square, Chesapeake, VA
• Virginia Center Commons, Glen Allen, VA
• Peninsula Town Center, Hampton, VA
• Military Circle Mall, Norfolk, VA
• Regency Square main store, Richmond, VA
• Regency Square furniture/home/men’s store, Richmond, VA
• Downtown Spokane, Spokane, WA

[Charlesaf3]

At some point Macy's will close all stores everywhere. Dying brand in a dying segment.

[sls76]

Those malls are pathetic now. Can't imagine what losing Macy's will do to them.

[richmondpics]

Simon should have redeveloped Virginia Center into one of their outlet centers. Too bad.

[snatale1]

Originally Posted by sls76

Those malls are pathetic now. Can't imagine what losing Macy's will do to them.

YUP! Probably nothing. Those two area's aren't great and most likely not a lot of Macy's traffic. Notice Short Pump isn't going anywhere!

[Charlesaf3]

short pump macys will go down too eventually. Having nothing to do with short pump. Retail has evolved away from department stores, especially mediocre ones like macys and the like

[richmondpics]

I've only had awful experiences at the Short Pump Macy's.

[tylerSC]

The Richmond area Macy's are all former Hecht's stores that were converted and perhaps have limited selections and are not very well managed. But just up the road in Northern Virginia, the Macy's stores are part of the original New York division and seem to have better assortments and better stores. These NoVa locations include original Macy's as well as converted Hecht's stores. When Federated and May Co. merged all of their stores into Macy's, that is where some of the problems began. But some of the nicer Macy's stores include Pentagon City, Tyson's Corner, and Fair Oaks and these stores have more designer assortments as well as the Macy's brands such as INC.

[aquest1]

Originally Posted by tylerSC

The Richmond area Macy's are all former Hecht's stores that were converted and perhaps have limited selections and are not very well managed. But just up the road in Northern Virginia, the Macy's stores are part of the original New York division and seem to have better assortments and better stores. These NoVa locations include original Macy's as well as converted Hecht's stores. When Federated and May Co. merged all of their stores into Macy's, that is where some of the problems began. But some of the nicer Macy's stores include Pentagon City, Tyson's Corner, and Fair Oaks and these stores have more designer assortments as well as the Macy's brands such as INC.

Before they were Hecht's, they were originally Thalhimers. But the Short Pump Macy's was never a Hecht's and is the Macy's flagship of the Richmond area. VCC and Regency Square are on the road to death and have been languishing for some time on their own. But some of these malls where Macy's will close stores nationwide are not awful places. The open air Suburban Square in Philadelphia's tony Main Line, just underwent a big renovation and it's a nice place to shop. Macy's closing is really a symptom of failure to adjust to a changing retail landscape.