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Oakland Mall Macy’s expected to close at the end of March BY SARAH WRIGHT swright@candgnews.com
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The Macy’s store at the Oakland Mall is expected to close March 31. Along with that store, 65 other Macy’s locations across the country are expected to close this year.
TROY — The Macy’s store at Oakland Mall is included among 65 other Macy’s stores across the country that are expected to close by the end of the first quarter this year. Macy’s is a department store chain that carries items such as clothing, shoes, accessories, cosmetics, homegoods, toys and furniture. On Jan. 9, the New York City-based retail titan announced its intention to close 66 locations across the country. “Closing any store is never easy, but as part of our Bold New Chapter strategy, we are closing underproductive Macy’s stores to allow us to focus our resources and prioritize investments in our go-forward stores, where customers are already responding positively to better product offerings and elevated service,” Tony Spring, chairman and chief executive officer of Macy’s, Inc., said in a press release. The closure of the Oakland Mall location came as a surprise to staff members, as they hadn’t expected the store to close. See MACY’S on page 23A
Community expresses concerns with potential development project TROY — A residential development project from GFA Development, Inc. has raised some concerns for community members that live around Ottawa Drive. At the Troy Planning Commission’s Jan.
14 meeting, a preliminary site plan review for the proposed Oak Meadow site condominium development project was approved 6-2, with Michael Hutson being absent. GFA Development previously submitted an application for a 16-unit one-family cluster development at 400 and 500 Ottawa Drive in an area that’s south of Ottawa,
north of Square Lake, and west of Rochester. It is currently zoned as a one-family residential district. In a 7-1 vote, the application was approved for recommendation by the Planning Commission in 2018. However, the applicant later requested that the application be placed on hold and did not go before City
Council for consideration before later withdrawing the application. “When I was here in 2018, we had six or seven issues that we talked about,” Gary Abitheira, a representative for GFA, said during the meeting. “One of them was density. We had passed 16, and now I’m back with See DEVELOPMENT on page 8A
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