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BurlingtonCoat MayExpandLocally■ The retailer considers opening stores in Fayetteville Mall and two r; other Central New York locations.TBy LILLIAN ABBOTTThe Post-StandardBurlington Coat Factory wants to open a store in Fayetteville Mall and possibly two more in Central New York, a company official said Thursday.'‘We're negotiating to expand our presence in Syracuse, and one of the places we're talking with is Fayetteville Mall/9; said Gary Graham, director of marketing for New Jersey-based Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp.He declined to comment on what other sites the discount retailer was consid-: ering.Burlington Coat Factory — which sells: men's and women’s clothing and house-, hold items — now has a store at North-“We’re negotiating to expand ourrtpresence In Syracuse. We feel that Syracuse is a viablemarket”GARY GRAHAM Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp. director of marketingern Lights Shopping Center in Mattydale. That store is doing well, Graham said. “We feel that Syracuse is a viable market, he added.Fayetteville Mall officials could not confirm Burlington’s plans.“If that's what Burlington is saying,then we’ll be very happy because they'arean excellent retailer,” said Alan Lipsy, director of Syracuse operations for Wilirio-rite Inc., which owns Fayetteville Mall.Wilmorite also owns Camillus Mall, Fairmount Fair in Fairmount, Great Northern Mall in Clay, Penn Can Mall in Cicero and Shoppingtown Mall in DeWitt.Lipsy declined to comment further “because no leases have been signed yet.”In December, Fayetteville Mall lost one of its anchor stores, as Addis Dey*{ began dosing its six upstate New Yori stores after filing for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the Fedefa Bankruptcy Act,A second anchor store, Kaufmann’s announced earlier this week that it plan; to close its Fayetteville Mall store am move to Shoppingtown.That leaves Sears, Roebuck Co. an* Hess’s as the two remaining anchors a Fayetteville Mall.Burlington Coat Factory has 175 store throughout the United States.It also owns Cohoes, a chain of store that discount designer clothing and acc*6 sories, Graham said. r There are three Cohoes: one each i . Albany, Rochester and East Windsqi Conn. CUHe declined to comment on whether Cohoes would be coming to the
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Syracuse Post Standard
Syracuse, New York, US
Fri, Feb 12, 1993
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