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Manassas Mall
Manassas Mall is a shopping center located in Bull Run, Virginia (near Manassas). Built in 1972, it is owned by Lionheart Capital LLC and managed by Spinoso Real Estate Group. formerly by Vornado Realty Trust which shelved its regional mall holdings in 2014. The mall is anchored by Macy's, Walmart, Floor & Decor, and an At Home, There is also a bowling alley and an indoor go-kart track. History The mall was built by Interstate Properties, with Grant City and Montgomery Ward serving as the original anchors. Hecht's later took over the Grant's space. Leggett and Sears were added in the 1980s. At this point, the mall was opened by Interstate Properties. Leggett closed in 1997, and J. C. Penney took over the space the same year. Also that year, the Hecht's relocated to a new store, with Target Corporation building a new store on the former Hecht's site. After Montgomery Ward closed, Sears moved into the former Montgomery Ward building. Hecht's became Macy's Macy's is an Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bull Run, Prince William County, Virginia
Bull Run is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia. The population was 14,983 at the 2010 census. History Two major battles of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Bull Run and the Second Battle of Bull Run, took place in the vicinity of Bull Run. Ben Lomond Plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Geography Bull Run is located at (38.785090, −77.523577). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 2.7 square miles (6.9 km2), all of it land. Demographics As of the 2010 census, there were 14,983 people, 5,602 households, and 3,334 families residing in the CDP. There were 5,946 housing units. The racial makeup of the CDP was 46.9% White (U.S. Census), White, 20.1% African American (U.S. Census), Black or African American, 0.6% Native American (U.S. Census), American Indian and Alaska Native, 7.2% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, 0% Pacific Islander (U.S. Census), Native ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hecht's
Hecht's was an American department store chain founded in 1857 by Samuel Hecht, Jr. It was headquartered in Washington, D.C., and operated in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and Southern United States. The family business was acquired by The May Department Stores Company in 1959, which itself was Acquisition of The May Department Stores Company by Federated Department Stores, acquired by Macy's, Inc., Federated Department Stores in 2005. Hecht's was dissolved in favor of the Federated-owned Bloomingdale's and Macy's brands in 2006. History The Hecht Company was founded in 1857 by Sam Hecht, Jr. The Hecht family was Jewish and came from the little village of Langenschwarz (now part of Burghaun), Kreis Hünfeld, Hesse, Germany where Sam was born on December 10, 1830. His father Meyer (a.k.a. Meier or Maier) Hecht was a cattle dealer or driver who was drowned in Langenschwarz on June 12, 1835. Meyer's parents were Anschel (a.k.a. Anshil or Asher) Hecht who was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JLL (company)
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL) is a global real estate services company, founded in the United Kingdom with offices in 80 countries. The company also provides investment management services worldwide, including services to institutional and retail investors, and to high-net-worth individuals, as well as technology products through JLL Technologies, and venture capital investments via its PropTech fund, JLL Spark. The company is ranked 193 on the ''Fortune'' 500. History After LaSalle Partners' initial public offering (IPO) in 1997, which was led by its first CEO, Stuart Scott, it merged with Jones Lang Wootton in 1999, to form Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) as part of a $435 million deal. Jones Lang Wootton was a London auctioneer that originated in the 1700s. By 1976, Jones Lang Wootton had expanded into the United States real estate market in New York City. The company had 4,000 employees in 33 countries around the time of the merger with LaSalle Partners. William Sanders ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bull Run, Virginia
Bull Run or Bullrun may refer to: Military * First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas), 1861, the first major battle of the American Civil War * Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas), 1862, a later battle also at Bull Run * Operation Bull Run, a military operation of the Iraq War and part of Operation Marne Torch * Bullrun (decryption program), a secret anti-encryption program run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) * USNS ''Bull Run'' (T-AO-156), an oil tanker Places in the United States Virginia * Bull Run (Occoquan River tributary), a stream in Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, site of the Civil War battles ** Bull Run, Fairfax County, Virginia, a census-designated place west of Centreville, east of the stream; See U.S. Route 29 in Virginia ** Bull Run, Prince William County, Virginia, a census-designated place northwest of Manassas, west of the stream ** Bull Run Mountain Estates, Virginia, a census-designated place in Prince William County, southw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shopping Malls Established In 1972
Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the potential intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. A typology of shopper types has been developed by scholars which identifies one group of shoppers as recreational shoppers, that is, those who enjoy shopping and view it as a leisure activity.Jones, C. and Spang, R., "Sans Culottes, Sans Café, Sans Tabac: Shifting Realms of Luxury and Necessity in Eighteenth-Century France," Chapter 2 in ''Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe, 1650-1850'' Berg, M. and Clifford, H., Manchester University Press, 1999; Berg, M., "New Commodities, Luxuries and Their Consumers in Nineteenth-Century England," Chapter 3 in ''Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe, 1650-1850'' Berg, M. and Clifford, H., Manchester University Press, 1999 Online shopping has become a major disruptor in the retail industry as consumers can now search for product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Target Corporation
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh-largest retailer in the United States, and a component of the S&P 500 Index. The company is one of the largest American-owned private employers in the United States. The original Target retail store was co-founded by John Geisse and Douglas Dayton, the CEO of the Dayton corporation at that time. The Dayton corporation, now known as the Target Corporation, was the company John Geisse worked for when he founded the Target stores and was founded in Minneapolis by businessman George Dayton in 1902, and developed through the years via expansion and acquisitions. Target, the company's first discount store and eventual namesake, was opened and founded by American business man John F. Geisse in 1962. The company became the Dayton-Hudson Corporation after merging with the J.L. Hudson Company in 1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sears
Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears ( ), is an American chain of department stores and online retailer founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail-order catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. Through the 1980s, Sears was the largest retailer in the United States. In 2005, the company was bought by the management of the American big box discount chain Kmart, which upon completion of the merger, formed Sears Holdings. In 2018, it was the 31st-largest. After several years of declining sales, Sears' parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on October 15, 2018. It announced on January 16, 2019, that it had won its bankruptcy auction, and that a reduced number of 425 stores would remain open, including 223 Sears stores. Sears was based in the Sears Tower in Chicago from 1973 until moving out to Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward is the name of two successive U.S. retail corporations. The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001; its common nickname was "Monkey Wards". The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the original Montgomery Ward shut down. Original Montgomery Ward (1872–2001) Company origins Aaron Montgomery Ward started his business in Chicago; conflicting reports place his first office either in a single room at 825 North Clark Street or in a loft above a livery stable on Kinzie Street, between Rush and State Streets. In 1883, the company's catalog had grown to 240 pages and 10,000 items. In 1896, Ward encountered its first serious competition in the mail order business, when Richard Warren Sears introduced his first general catalog. In 1900, Ward had total sales of $8.7 million, compared to $10 million for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shopping Center
A shopping center in American English, shopping centre in English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English (see American and British English spelling differences#-re, -er, spelling differences), shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza, or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. The first known collections of retailers under one roof are marketplace, public markets, dating back to ancient times, and Middle Eastern covered markets, bazaars and souqs. In Paris, about 150 Covered passages of Paris, covered passages were built between the late 18th century and 1850, and a wealth of Arcade (architecture)#Shopping arcades, shopping arcades were built across Europe in the 19th century. In the United States, the widespread use of the automobile in the 1920s led to the first shopping centers consisting of a few dozen shops that included parking for cars. Starting in 1946, larger, open air centers anchored by department stores were b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At Home (store)
At Home is an American big-box retail chain of home furnishing stores. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, At Home operates 262 stores in 40 states. The company was founded in 1979 as Garden Ridge Pottery and World Imports, and later shortened to Garden Ridge. In 2014, it became AtHome. History Founding as Garden Ridge In 1979, Eric White opened a store called Garden Ridge Pottery and World Imports in Schertz, Texas. In 1985, a second location opened near Yukon, Oklahoma. By April 1986, the company owned three stores and had purchased two Houston shopping malls. In January 1987, the Oklahoma store was sold off and became Cimarron Pottery & World Imports Inc. White Garden Ridge to a group of investors in 1988. The chain had annual sales of $50 million at the time. By 1995, Garden Ridge had expanded to seven stores in Tulsa, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Louisville, Memphis, and Oklahoma City. The company held an initial public later that year. By November 1999, investment firm T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floor & Decor
Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc., branded as Floor & Decor, is a multi-channel American specialty retailer of hard surface flooring and related accessories that was founded in 2000 and headquartered in Smyrna, Georgia, United States (a suburb of Atlanta). It is the second-largest specialty flooring retailer in the United States, behind Lumber Liquidators History The company was founded as FDO Holdings in 2000 by George West, whose family ran West Building Materials. The company changed its name to Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. in April 2017. The company doubled in size in the five years between 2011 and 2016, and revenues went from $277 million in 2011 to more than $772 million in 2016. The company had a net income of over $26 million in 2016. Floor & Decor was profitable for the five year period before its initial public offering (IPO). In 2017, the company had its initial public offering with a 53% gain and ended up having the largest IPO increase of the year. In February 2018, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
