TWO MACY'S IN STORE FOR SIMI TOWN CENTER LOCATIONS TO OFFER MORE PRODUCT LINES.Byline: ERIC LEACH Staff Writer SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. -- The Robinsons-May department store at the Simi Valley Town Center Simi Valley Town Center is a shopping center located in Simi Valley, California. The mall opened in 2005 with Macy's and Robinsons-May as anchor stores. The Robinsons-May store was converted into a Macy's Men and Home Store on September 9, 2006. will be converted to a second Macy's, with the transition scheduled to begin soon after Robinsons-May closes temporarily at the end of this month. ``We felt there was more than enough business being generated in Simi Valley for the two locations,'' said Milinda Martin, a spokeswoman for Macy's. A clearance sale is under way to get ready to convert the 140,000-square-foot Robinsons-May into a Macy's that will offer men's clothing and items for the home. The 110,000-square-foot Macy's at the west end of the mall will receive an expanded selection of clothes and other items for women and children. The new arrangement will be similar to the situation at The Oaks shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into in neighboring Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. , where the Robinsons-May was closed and converted to a Macy's following the acquisition of May Department Stores The May Department Stores Company was a department store chain founded in 1877 by David May in Leadville, Colorado. Its headquarters moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1905, and the company went public in 1911. by Federated Connected and treated as one. See federated database and federated directories. Department Stores, which owns Macy's. Officials could not predict exactly when the Simi Valley transition would be completed, but said the Robinsons-May at the east end of the mall will close temporarily for remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling and reopen again some time before the end of this year. The Macy's at the west end will then be reconfigured without closing. Even before the Town Center opened last fall, Federated officials said the Robinsons-May store was going to be converted this year to a Macy's, but city officials and economists had speculated that Macy's might sell their other store at the west end rather than keep two locations at the Town Center. ``We've evaluated the market and believe there is enough customer base to support a dual location,'' Macy's spokeswoman Janet Devor said when the plan for two stores was announced this month. ``We have dual locations in many cities.'' Brian Gabler, assistant city manager and director of economic development for the city, said the arrangement ``is a good situation.'' ``It will provide expanded product lines in the stores and more shopping opportunities for residents of Simi Valley,'' he said. eric.leach(at)dailynews.com (805) 583-7602 |
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