{"id":3327,"date":"2010-03-05T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:28:58","slug":"former-conlins-furniture-space-filled-at-gateway-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/3327\/former-conlins-furniture-space-filled-at-gateway-mall","title":{"rendered":"Former Conlin’s Furniture Space Filled At Gateway Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famous Labels will occupy the former Conlin's Furniture space at Gateway Fashion Mall.<\/p><\/div>\n

After months of bad news for Gateway Fashion Mall<\/a>, the 30 year-old shopping center is finally in the news for something positive. Gateway Fashion Mall has announced that they have signed a new lease with regional discount chain, Famous Labels, to occupy the former Conlin’s Furniture<\/a> anchor space, which was vacated last December<\/a>. The store is expected to open late spring.<\/p>\n

Famous Labels is a deep discount department store that features name-brand apparel, houseware, and gift merchandise at clearance\u00a0prices – similar to a TJMaxx store. Headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, Famous Labels is a rapidly expanding company that currently boasts over 40 locations.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been able to find out a whole lot more about Famous Labels, but it appears to be a relatively new company, having only been around since about 2001.<\/p>\n

The center anchor space, of which will soon be home to Famous Labels, has housed several tenants over the years, most notably A.W. Lucas<\/a> (1979-1980?), Herbergers (1980?-1994), Jacobs Trading\/World’s Greatest Deals<\/a> (1995-1997), and Conlin’s Furniture (2004-2009).<\/p>\n

2009 had been one of the roughest years in Gateway Fashion Mall’s history, having seen the departure of three major retailers,\u00a0amongst\u00a0others, in addition to a still-pending fraud lawsuit filed against its owner, Raymond Arjmand. This new announcement hopefully indicates a more promising future for the shopping center, which recently completed major renovation.<\/p>\n

I sure hope I’m wrong on this, but\u00a0I’m somewhat concerned that Famous Labels’ tenure may be short lived. This practically brand-new, and relatively unknown, company has already expanded to an impressive 40+ locations within less than a decade, with plans to add more throughout the year, during a time when most retailers are cutting back. Add to that, the company doesn’t even have a website, which in this day in age is often considered a necessity for a vibrant company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After months of bad news for Gateway Fashion Mall, the 30 year-old shopping center is finally in the news for something positive. Gateway Fashion Mall has announced that they have signed a new lease with regional discount chain, Famous Labels, to occupy the former Conlin’s Furniture anchor space, which was vacated last December. The store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2409,274],"tags":[253,325,4,142,188,6],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-news","tag-business","tag-conlins-furniture","tag-gateway-fashion-mall","tag-new","tag-opening","tag-retail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}