The party store chain will open 10 temporary locations for Halloween, including one at the former Borders in Braintree.
Need a Halloween costume, or maybe some gruesome decorations to scare the trick-or-treaters, but don't want to travel far? Like last year, Braintree is home again this holiday season to a temporary iParty store, at the former Borders location on Grossman Drive that now holds a Guitar Center. It is one of 10 locations that the Dedham-based regional chain is opening for Halloween and will carry costomes for infants through adults, along with candy, decorations and other items. "Halloween is our biggest sales period,” Sal Perisano, CEO and co-founder of iParty, said in a press release. “It is such an important retail holiday and such a perfect time for communities to kick back and have some fun. We thought that opening temporary stores in …
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Construction is ongoing at the former garden center part of Kmart, where a beauty shop is going in. Grossman Drive will also see a Guitar Center.
Two new stores are coming to the Grossman Drive shopping center in Braintree, both of which will use a portion of an existing retail space. Permitting and initial construction is underway for ULTA Beauty to move into the former garden center area of Kmart, and Guitar Center will inhabit half of the Borders building, Building Inspector Russell Forsberg said. The lease for ULTA, which sells cosmetics, fragrances and other beauty products online and in stores, is a trend for Kmart and Sears, which are renting portions of their big box stores to smaller retailers, according to Forsberg and various news reports. In St. Louis, for example, the owner of both stores, Sears Holdings Management Corp., is subleasing nearly 30 properties, the St. …
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1:27 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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