The Chains Are Leaving Silver Spring?
By Silver Springer • Oct 22nd, 2007 • Category: Arts, Food and Entertainment, Business and Economic Development
With the close of the furniture store, Bombay Company, Inc, there’s a large vacant retail space now available in the core of Silver Spring’s shopping district.
Fort Worth, Texas based Bombay Company, Inc had 384 stores nationally and internationally as well as online. They filed for bankruptcy in September and are being auctioned to a joint venture between Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, LLC and Hilco Merchant Resources, LLC.
The falling out of the Bombay Company follows the bankruptcy and liquidation of McLean, Virginia based Storehouse Furniture stores which also had a large visible location in downtown Silver Spring.
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If the space must be occupied by a home furnishings shop, then I’d like to see West Elm open there. (I think they opened one recently in the District.)
Their stuff’s not too bad, and the style may be more consistent with the central business district’s demographics (young apartment dwellers).
The headline on this item is misleading. It implies a problem with business in downtown Silver Spring, while the problem is actually the bankruptcy of a national chain.
[quote comment="2871"]The headline on this item is misleading. It implies a problem with business in downtown Silver Spring, while the problem is actually the bankruptcy of a national chain.[/quote]
wow I wonder if you contact every newspaper, magazine and media outlet, when you find misleading titles. Or maybe you don’t read those things too often. But if that’s what you have issues with well buddy I hate to tell ya, it’s normal, and you’ll be stressing yourself every second of the hour. LOL
I agree with Bob, it is misleading, and I hate to say it, but it is in line with irresponsible “sensational” journalism.
West Elm. Just went there today. IKEA quality, at four times the IKEA price. Naa, if I want cheap furniture with hollow “wood” and veneers, it might as well come at a cheap price.
A kitchen store would be nice, or maybe one of those places like Container Store that sells a bunch of plastic doodads.
No blairalumni, this headline merits a correction. It implies that that chains are leaving Silver Spring because this is not a good place to do business, when the real reason is that the whole chains are going bankrupt. Nothing to do with us.
Looks like you could interpret that headline 1001 ways.
Maybe its the wishful thinking(coming from Montgomery/PG County Haters) that All of the National Restaurants, Upscale Retail, and Other Large Business Chains to leave Silver Spring/Montgomery County and continue to Fill Up in Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax County, and Other Parts of Northern Virginia………………….
Seriously you guys wow. So you never heard about marketing? IE catchy titles to get the viewers/readers to read the article or stay tune to watch the segment?
Anyways SS great Marketing Gimmick, from those of us who actually know..