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Gimbels. Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated for over a century, from 1842 until 1987. Gimbel patriarch Adam Gimbel opened his first store in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. In 1887, the company moved its operations to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
As cross-town rival Gimbels was being dismantled in 1986, Boston Store acquired three Gimbel's branches at Southgate Mall, Milwaukee, East Towne Mall, Madison and Mayfair Mall, Wauwatosa. In 1989, P.A. Bergner bought Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott for over $450 million.
Its 1914 building, the one acquired by Field's in 1929, was eventually bought by Nordstrom; the structure was renovated and reopened in 1998 as a replacement for Nordstrom's own Seattle parent store. BATUS closed its Gimbels division in 1986 and transferred five former Gimbels locations in Wisconsin to its Marshall Field's division: downtown ...
The Kohl's Department Store announced for the mall was dropped in favor of three other new anchors: Boston Store, Gimbels and JCPenney. All four department stores opened the same day as the mall's ...
Many bars and pubs are in the neighborhood, including Neighborhood Draft at 5921 W. Vliet St. and McBob's Pub & Grill at 4919 W. North Ave. — a Milwaukee staple known for its corned beef. There ...
Schuster's. Exterior of Schuster's Department Store on King Drive in Milwaukee when it was temporarily unclad in 2015. Exterior of Schuster's Department Store, showing decorative brickwork. Schuster's, officially Ed. Schuster & Co., was a department store chain, founded in 1883, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it is now defunct. [ 1][ 2]
Milwaukee's efforts to redevelop the former Northridge Mall are getting a $15 million grant − even though the mall owner is still fighting in court to stop that project.. Gov. Tony Evers on ...
Kaufmann's was a department store that originated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The store was owned in the early 20th century by Edgar J. Kaufmann, patron of the famous Fallingwater house. In the post-war years, the store became a regional chain in the eastern United States, and was last owned by Federated Department Stores. At the height of its ...