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Article: Midtown Lowe's closes Retailer was seen as big player in redevelopment
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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By DORIS HAJEWSKI
The Lowe's home improvement store at the Midtown shopping center
has closed, having never lived up to the company's sales
expectations.
The store, at 5800 W. Hope Ave., opened in 2005 and was the first
Lowe's store in the Milwaukee area. It was seen as a key part of
Midtown, a redevelopment project that replaced the former Capitol
Court mall.
Based in North Carolina, Lowe's also has stores on Brown Deer
Road, on W. Burleigh St. in Wauwatosa, and on S. 27th St. in
Franklin. Those stores will remain open, according to Lowe's
spokeswoman Julie Yenichek.
The abrupt closing of the Midtown store Sunday night is not part
of a wider pullback for Lowe's, Yenichek said. The last time ...