Atlantic Center To Lose Major Tenant
After sixty years in business, consumer electronics retailer Circuit City announced on Saturday that its attempts to find a buyer had failed and that it would close all of its 567 stores as part of the company’s liquidation. One of those stores happens to be in the Atlantic Center, Forest City’s mall overlooking the site…
After sixty years in business, consumer electronics retailer Circuit City announced on Saturday that its attempts to find a buyer had failed and that it would close all of its 567 stores as part of the company’s liquidation. One of those stores happens to be in the Atlantic Center, Forest City’s mall overlooking the site of its proposed Atlantic Yards project. The Atlantic Center store is on the second floor of the mall and won’t be easy to fill in this environment.
Circuit City to Shut Down [NY Times]
And under his breath the storeclerk is saying “Christ, what an asshole!!” 🙂 🙂
rf, why’d you laugh?
I know I’m gonna get hustled in these stores so I have a standard line. I tell the sales clerk, ‘I’ll make you a deal. I didn’t break your stones with a lot of questions. I know exactly what I want and I’m prepared to buy it and I’m not gonna waste your time. So don’t waste my time with the extended warranty story, because I don’t buy them.’
This holiday season Circuit City in the Atlantic Mall was a great place to buy stuff that was sold out everywhere else–Wii and its spawn.
I had to laugh, though, when they asked if I wanted an extended warranty.
i think the hasids would riot if Atlantic center shut down.
Actually, I disagree. Chain stores like to be with other chain stores in an indoor mall environment. Where else can you find that in this part of Brooklyn? This reminds me of the Fulton Mall sucks discussion which completely ignored the fact that the Fulton Mall commands high rents and is very crowded. I think a certain snobbiness is getting in the way here. Despite the retail downturn, I think they will fill this space–maybe end up subdividing or lowering rent though.
Maybe it was their brain that was numb. Good story cwbuecheler. The Atlintic Center needs all the help it can get.
I had a date like that once.
Apropos of nothing, really: Circuit City is the only place where I’ve had a cashier be in the middle of checking me out and then turn to her coworkers and start screaming “MY TONGUE! MY TONGUE! IT JUST WENT NUMB! MY TONGUE IS TOTALLY NUMB!” (which sounded more like “MA TUM IS TOLY NUM!”) and then calmly turn back around and continue checking me out.
That’s my story. I hope you enjoyed it.
That Atlantic Center is so miserable. They should implode it.