The Bon-Ton Stores will become the latest casualty in a retreat from brick-and-mortar retail, after a savior failed to show up to a bankruptcy auction this week.
The future of Bon-Ton Stores looks tenuous after the department store chain that survived economic downturns including the Great Depression filed for bankruptcy protection and said it may seek a buyer for all or pieces of itself.
A Milwaukee panel has given its approval to a plan that would have the city help pay for renovations of a downtown Boston Store building and the redevelopment of the former Warner Grand Theatre.
The lack of assurance that other retail development would follow Milwaukee’s offering Boston Store $1.2 million to stay downtown frustrated some aldermen Wednesday even as the Common Council approved the deal.
Two Milwaukee aldermen want the city’s comptroller to vet a proposed tax incremental financing district extension that would keep Boston Store downtown until 2018.
The Boston Store will remain on West Wisconsin Avenue in downtown Milwaukee through January 2018 if the city offers a financial incentive through its downtown tax incremental financing district.
The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District must abate a groundwater problem that is damaging a Boston Store, according to a Wisconsin Supreme Court opinion.
By Marie Rohde A downtown Milwaukee Boston Store was closed Monday after an interior wall collapsed, according to a spokesman for the store owner. “It apparently happened overnight,” said Brian Manthey, a spokesman for Wispark LLC, the parent company for ...