{"id":468,"date":"2009-07-15T23:48:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T04:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=468"},"modified":"2018-05-15T23:14:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T03:14:01","slug":"rite-aid-2324-sunset-boulevard-23-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Rite Aid, 2324 Sunset Boulevard: 23 May 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid007_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid001_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid023.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid023_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find this <i>Rite Aid<\/i> closing interesting because it happened so soon after the conversion from <i>Eckerd's<\/i>, so in 2007, they paid a lot of money to redo all the signage and branding, interior and exterior, and then in 2009, closed the store.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was a classy touch to transfer the store's perscriptions across the street to their competitors at <i>CVS<\/i> rather than sending customers to a <i>Rite Aid<\/i> further away.  I hope the building can be re-used, it's still fairly new and appears quite nice.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid008_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid011_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid013_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid014_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid015_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid017_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid018_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid019.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid019_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid025.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid025_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/sunset_rite_aid026_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10 September 2011<\/b> -- Looks like it's to be <i>Capital Tile<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250869.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/09\/p1250869_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2 June 2012<\/b> -- I don't know what happened to <i>Capital Tile<\/i>, which never opened as far as I know, but the place is now a fertility clinic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060856.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060856_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060856_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060856_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060857.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060857_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060857_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060857_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060858.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/06\/p1060858_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1060858_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1060858_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find this Rite Aid closing interesting because it happened so soon after the conversion from Eckerd's, so in 2007, they paid a lot of money to redo all the signage and branding, interior and exterior, and then in 2009, closed the store. I think it was a classy touch to transfer the store's perscriptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2535,174,389,29,2523,4,374,356,57],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2324-sunset-boulevard","tag-i-26","tag-lexington","tag-pharmacy","tag-rite-aid","tag-stores","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-us-378","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}