Posts Tagged: Philadelphia retail properties

Gap to Close Two-Story Center City Store After More Than 20 Years

Gap Inc. is vacating its store at 1510 Walnut St. in Center City and laying off 32 employees as a result of the closure, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. Gap has been a Walnut Street mainstay, having been in space on the street… Read more »

Boyds Retail Rebuilds After Looting Damages Store and Plans a Suburban Outpost for the First Time in 83 Years

Kent Gushner was at home the evening protests turned into looting, violence and vandalism in Center City. He watched the scene unfold from security cameras installed at Boyds, one of Philadelphia’s oldest and vaunted retailers. Glass doors and windows from his family-owned store at 1818 Chestnut St. were broken and marauders plundered any items they could get… Read more »

Philadelphia Retail Real Estate Market Continues Growth in Fourth Quarter

Nearly 34,000 square feet of Philadelphia retail real estate were added to the Philadelphia retail space market during the final quarter of 2014 as six Philadelphia retail properties came onto the market, according to the latest report from The CoStar Group. The research company also looked at retail space in Philadelphia in the previous four… Read more »