The Pier One store in the Monadnock Market shopping center in Keene is among some 450 locations to be closed as the home goods retailer files for bankruptcy.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based company on Monday that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and that it has “closed or initiated going-out-of-business sales at over 400 locations.”
The company had announced it January that it would be shuttering up to 450 stores.
With the Keene store closing, five Pier One locations will remain open in New Hampshire – on in Manchester, two in Nashua, one in Salem and one in West Lebanon.
New Hampshire’s growing role in military and security related manufacturing was on display June 3 in Nashua. About 200 people, representing advanced manufacturing interests both in the state and regionally, registered for the Northeast National Security Conference that organizer Julie Demers said goes “beyond traditional defense that people would think of.”
Landmark legislation that originated in New Hampshire 43 years ago is being put to the test today as for-profit investors snap up manufactured home communities here and across the country.
Thank you for joining us for Leadership Unscripted, held on Thursday, June 4 at the Rex Theatre in Manchester. Photos by Jodie Andruskevich.
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