{"id":10067,"date":"2014-09-15T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2019-04-10T20:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T00:01:37","slug":"belks-dutch-square-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10067","title":{"rendered":"Belk, Dutch Square: December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, this developed rather suddenly today. Commenter skysguy reported this early in the morning, and commenter Mr. Bo supplied this official link<\/a> this evening: Belk's<\/i> in Dutch Square<\/a> is closing.<\/p>\n

The chain is pitching it as doubling down on their Columbiana<\/i> location, especially after getting extra space in the former Sears<\/a>. However, they have had extra space in the Dutch Square<\/i> store for *years<\/i>*, and I believe if they had thought that store was viable, they could have re-opened the closed off spooky third floor (empty now except the hair salon and mens' room):<\/p>\n

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This closing pretty much puts the fork in the \"mall\" part of Dutch Square<\/i>, and I would not be at all surprised to see the theater and Burlington<\/i> closing their doors to the interior. (Office Depot<\/i> already lacks interior access).<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter skysguy)<\/p>\n

UPDATE 24 December 2014<\/b> -- All of the closing signage is up, and the store is half empty. If you want to buy some racks, step ladders, office chairs or nude mannequins, now's your chance. I'm not surprised fixtures aren't returnable, but I did find it a bit curious that regular merchandise is not returnable either, given we still have two local Belk's<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 4 February 2015<\/b> -- The closure is complete:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 10 September 2015<\/b> -- Interestingly, the building still<\/i> isn't quite cleaned out:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 7 November 2015<\/b> -- Here's a closing ad in The State<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 10 April 2019<\/b> -- As mentioned in the comments, this is now a Planet Fitness<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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Also adding map icon,updating tags and changing Belks<\/i> to Belk<\/i> in the post title.<\/p>\n

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Well, this developed rather suddenly today. Commenter skysguy reported this early in the morning, and commenter Mr. Bo supplied this official link this evening: Belk's in Dutch Square is closing. The chain is pitching it as doubling down on their Columbiana location, especially after getting extra space in the former Sears. However, they have had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1324,1599,22,502,4],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-421-bush-river-road","tag-bush-river-road-broad-river-road","tag-dutch-square","tag-dutch-square-boulevard","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}