Home accessory store Kirkland's is leaving the Mall of Acadiana, but the retailer isn't leaving Lafayette. The store is moving across Johnston Street into a building next to Applebee's (I believe this was formerly a Fashion Warehouse or something similar? If you know leave a comment below). Workers cleaning the windows and assembling the shelves at the new location told me it should be open in about a week.
Mall of Acadiana Marketing Director Brian Lutz tells me that Kirkland's wanted more space, but there were no larger slots open. Lutz says the mall has already leased the Kirkland's space, but the deal has not been finalized so he can't release the name of the new tenant.
Lutz tells me there are many indicators coming out of the mall that show shoppers in Acadiana continue to hit the stores - despite national trends. You can read more about that in my column that will debut in tomorrow's issue of The Independent.
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Are you talking about the large building that is between Applebee's and Toys R Us? That has been a number of things over the years--a shoe store, an auto-parts store, and mostly a vacant building.
ReplyDeleteFrom the picture it looks like the old Blockbuster Video.
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