K-Mart

[d_fife]

here is a kmart.  and said to be teh worlds smallest kmart.

from  www.average-bear.com/ archive/cat_pictures.html

[d_fife]

here is the kmart in hyannis mass that is 90,000 sf that opened in march 1973. notice it has the K logo. I gues the the cape cod did not want the big K logo

from http://www.urbanretail.com/urpweb.nsf/0/9ba1e335856c899d88256c25005f53a4?OpenDocument

[d_fife]

here is the kmart in hagerstown md

from http://www.cedarshoppingcenters.com/valley.htm

[ameskmart1]

K-Mart

[ameskmart1]

Red Oak, IA

[Zayre88]

Originally posted by ameskmart1
Red Oak, IA

That store is like the former Skowhegan Maine store.  These types of Kmart were usually smaller stores.  We can still see the spots where the old logo was installed (Red Oak).

[ameskmart1]

Charlotte, NC (Now a school)

[ameskmart1]

Hastings, NE (Now a school)

[BillyGr]

Here are shots of the Big Kmarts in Latham (Top) and East Greenbush (Bottom).

Both have attached (former) grocery stores - the Latham one was (probably) a Grand Union, the East Greenbush was a Price Chopper.

The Latham one, after being empty for quite a while is now Gold's Gym (moved from another former GU in Latham Circle Mall, which was demolished when Lowes was built.

The East Greenbush is now a Big Lots.

[d_fife]

here is the kmart in homer glen il that is now sears essentials

from http://www.angelfire.com/planet/lecentre2/srsess.html

[d_fife]

here is the kmart in streator il

from http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/bigkmart.html

[d_fife]

here is the kmart in lockport il

from http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/bigkmart.html

[d_fife]

Originally posted by d_fife
here is the kmart in lockport il

from http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/bigkmart.html

here is the kmart garden center sign in lockport il. this is the old school sign in lockport.

from http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/lecentre/bigkmart.html

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by d_fife
here is the kmart in homer glen il that is now sears essentials

from http://www.angelfire.com/planet/lecentre2/srsess.html

it still looks like the kmart thats verey cheep of sears they could do more then just a crappy paint job

[d_fife]

here is the kmart that was in amsterdam ny and it opned like 1993 or 1994 and closed fall 2000 with 71 other stores! it replaced another nearby store (kmarT) it is like 166,000 or 180,000 sf

from http://www.nassimirealty.com/sa_retail7.html

[d_fife]

kmart in brighton mass may meet its fate. hopefully it iwll move

from http://www2.townonline.com/allston/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=442994

Charlesview could move to Kmart site
By Amanda Patterson/ Correspondent
Friday, March 3, 2006

Harvard's new proposal to relocate Charlesview to the site currently occupied by Kmart on Western Avenue was debated by the Harvard-Allston task force at the Honan Allston Library Wednesday.
 
    Harvard has long been eyeing the housing development at the corner of North Harvard Street and Western Avenue for a contiguous campus in Allston, but Charlesview residents have opposed previous options for a land swap in the interest of their prime location, being close to public transit, a supermarket and a library. They have made it clear that any proposed site should mirror the same advantages, if not add to them.
 
    "The swap with Charlesview offers [them] a little bit more land," said Kathy Spiegelman, chief university planner and director of the Allston Initiative. "And our role is to offer them enough to make the swap."
 
    Mellone expressed reservations about the process being followed to move Charlesview, a move which he feels could be planned to improve the kind of space the residents inhabit.
 
    "This is a convenient place to put them, but I am concerned that we don't short-circuit the process," Mellone said.
 
    Task force member Millie Hollum Mclaughlin asked about the process by which Harvard sought approval, and what Harvard would do if the Charlesview board accepts the land swap proposal but the town rejects it.
 
    Spiegelman said that they had to start somewhere; and starting with an agreement - which has not yet been reached - between Charlesview and Harvard did not override the normal regulatory processes.
 
    Questions were also raised about putting residential development into the commercially zoned area. A representative from the BRA said they would have to look into it.
 
    Task force chairman Ray Mellone was concerned about the green spaces available to Charlesview residents in the Kmart location, as well as the impact on abutters to the property.
 
    Spiegelman highlighted the potential for renewal and employment on Western Avenue, and spoke glowingly of the architectural firm Harvard had selected after a lengthy competition to do the design work. Behnisch designed the Genzyme building in Kendall Square, though Spiegelman assured the task force that they were not looking to replicate the glass building.
 
    A lot has changed since the last meeting of the task force appointed by the mayor to represent Allston's interests as Harvard moves toward developing its Allston campus. They met again to hear in person about the new science and art centers formally proposed for Western Avenue by Harvard President Larry Summers, who resigned days after making the announcement.
 
    Foremost on task force member Michael Hanlon's mind was the future of the project without Summers to guide it. Hanlon said he felt that together, Summers and Menino had a sense of what Allston needed.
 
    "It's not like any of us knew Summers, but he knew who we were. That was comforting," Hanlon said. "They don't know who the next advocate will be, or what their vision will be."
 
    The last meeting of Harvard's Allston Initiative team, the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Allston task force was held just a few days before the announcement that Behnisch Architects of Stuttgart, Germany, were named as the designers of the new 500,000-square-foot science center, and that Harvard planned to turn the former Citizens Bank building into a museum space.
 
    At the last meeting, Spiegelman told the group that they would be making an announcement soon, but did not make the task force privy to the plan.
 
    Spiegelman started out Wednesday's meeting with an apology. "I'm sorry that when I was before you two weeks ago, I was not at liberty to tell you about the site and the plans in the works with the mayor."
 
    Harvard wants the new Allston campus to reflect the feel of Harvard, which Spiegelman said would likely mean that the 500,000 square feet would be divided among several buildings. She also committed to bring the architects to the task force meeting in the near future to hear their ideas.

[XISMZERO]

While I grew up with K-Mart heavily, I cannot understand how they still exist today. For the first time in years, I visited a few remaining K-Mart stores around me (there's one left in a really outdated plaza in Cromwell and then in a semi-ugly area of Holyoke, MA. Needless to say, I was not impressed as I never was. It did, however, feel like I ventured a decade back in time.

I simply don't know how K-Mart makes ends meat in order to stay alive admist stores that are seemingly with the times like Wal-Mart and Target. My guess is that the Sears merge saved it as that store is holding the remaining, withering K-Mart chain on by a thread. Could it also be that Martha Stewart is helping keep the remaining stores around?

If you ask me, it should've collapsed before Caldor and Ames (much better competition).

[powersbt]

Originally posted by XISMZERO
While I grew up with K-Mart heavily, I cannot understand how they still exist today. For the first time in years, I visited a few remaining K-Mart stores around me (there's one left in a really outdated plaza in Cromwell and then in a semi-ugly area of Holyoke, MA. Needless to say, I was not impressed as I never was. It did, however, feel like I ventured a decade back in time.

I simply don't know how K-Mart makes ends meat in order to stay alive admist stores that are seemingly with the times like Wal-Mart and Target. My guess is that the Sears merge saved it as that store is holding the remaining, withering K-Mart chain on by a thread. Could it also be that Martha Stewart is helping keep the remaining stores around?

If you ask me, it should've collapsed before Caldor and Ames (much better competition).

I hear ya there. I think that the Sears Merger helped to keep them afloat. I have not heard anything lately about how they are doing currently, or how their Holiday Sales went.

I give K Mart a lot of credit for retaining the Martha Stewart line. I feel that her line does indeed help them. Most people or companies wouldn't have thought twice about dumping her amist her scandal. They held on to it, and it did well before, during and after it all.

[AmesNewington]

Around 1993, K-Mart was going to build a Super K Mart in the now busy Lowes Plaza in Newington CT set to open in mid-1994. It never went through. Competition at that time was Ames, Bradlees, Caldor, and Lechmere.

(I got this info from the Hartford Courant.com Archives)

[d_fife]

Originally posted by AmesNewington
Around 1993, K-Mart was going to build a Super K Mart in the now busy Lowes Plaza in Newington CT set to open in mid-1994. It never went through. Competition at that time was Ames, Bradlees, Caldor, and Lechmere.

(I got this info from the Hartford Courant.com Archives)

that would have been bigger than the other stores and more than their strenght combined. but i wonder if it would have closed if it opened because the other two super ks in ct (new haven and wallingford) closed 3 yeasr ago.

I wonder if Kmart will build new stores. Kmart had 2000 stoers before the 1st wave of closings and will never get back to 2000 stores.

I noticed hte 40,000 sf stores are almost extinct because a lot of them closed like skowhegan and north conway me and one in arkansas and the 40,000 sf stores were in smaller markets for some reason. most seem to be 84,180 sf.

[d_fife]

kmart in bradford pa that clsoed 1.5 years ago due to lease expiring and it was in the  bradford mall and in 1994 it was expanded from 55,000 sf to 90,272 sf

from http://www.loopnet.com/xNet/MainSite/Listing/Profile/ProfileSE.aspx?LID=14333694&linkcode=1070&sourcecode=1lww2t006a00001

[d_fife]

here is the 84,240 sf Kmart in orange Ct on Bull hill lane that closed in April 1988 to become Builders square.

see the label scar

from http://www.siteride.com/srpl/p_snapshot.pl?lm=listing&resbox=1142206266&subNum=13215000167

[BillyGr]

First is the (small) Big K in Glenmont, NY - in the plaza with the Price Chopper (former Grand Union demolished on the site) - there is a bit more of the store to the right, but not much - it's also fairly shallow.
Second is the Poughkeepsie store (Rt 44).  This is next to a (former) Shop Rite, also a WalGreens and a strip of small stores - the SR&KM make the bottom of the U, WG one side & the small stores the other - however there is space between all 3 parts.
3rd is the Bennington, VT store - Average sized, in the plaza with a JC Penney, Staples (former grocery) and several small shops.

[BillyGr]

This is the K-Was section!

1st the former Pittsfield (MA) store - at the intesection of Routes 8 & 9.  This is a standard "Old" Kmart combo with an (also former) Price Chopper next door.  This was closed in one of the earlier batches and has been subdivided into HomeGoods, Petco and an empty spot (which had been an auto place, not surprising seeing as how part of it is the former K-Auto center).

2nd is the former Big K in North Adams, MA (between Route 8, 8A and Main St.) - this closed more recently (maybe the last or 2nd to last batch) and had been empty but is now been renovated for something - no signs though to say what).

Last is (half of) the former Kingston SuperK - Kohl's has taken the other half and remodelled it to Kohl's standard design (brown wall on the left), but this half is still SuperK design - that door was the grocery entrance and the windowed area was a restaurant.

[d_fife]

Originally posted by BillyGr
This is the K-Was section!

1st the former Pittsfield (MA) store - at the intesection of Routes 8 & 9.  This is a standard "Old" Kmart combo with an (also former) Price Chopper next door.  This was closed in one of the earlier batches and has been subdivided into HomeGoods, Petco and an empty spot (which had been an auto place, not surprising seeing as how part of it is the former K-Auto center).

2nd is the former Big K in North Adams, MA (between Route 8, 8A and Main St.) - this closed more recently (maybe the last or 2nd to last batch) and had been empty but is now been renovated for something - no signs though to say what).

Last is (half of) the former Kingston SuperK - Kohl's has taken the other half and remodelled it to Kohl's standard design (brown wall on the left), but this half is still SuperK design - that door was the grocery entrance and the windowed area was a restaurant.

the north adams store closed in the spring 2002 (283 stores) batch. IT WAS IN A BAD LOCATIOn. WHWEN I WENT AROUND THERE both 2 yers ago and 4 yeasr ago, I had hard time finding my way out. IT WAS IN A BAD LOCATION!!!!

The one in Kingston ny I heard was in the hudson valley mall where dick's and best buy are. I wonder why this closed. I saw that only half the building was leased.

the one in pittsfield opened in 1971 and was an individual closing rather than a mass purge and it closed due to poor sales. WHY would it have had poor sales.

[amesman]

The old store was in the Hudson Valley Mall. The store pictured above was the relocated store after Kmart moved out of the mall in 1995.

[d_fife]

here is the former kmart in oneonta ny in the southside mall. it opened in 1982 and closed in spring 2003. it was expanded a little and got a garden center in teh early 1990s.

[d_fife]

Originally posted by d_fife
here is the former kmart in oneonta ny in the southside mall. it opened in 1982 and closed in spring 2003. it was expanded a little and got a garden center in teh early 1990s.

more kmart in oneonta

[XISMZERO]

All the K-Mart stores left around me are called "Big K Mart". Are all K-Marts reffered to as "Big"? It seems like they rebranded K-Mart in this "Big" trend around the turn of the millennium. Anyway, everytime I go into one of these stores it reminds me of old retail i.e. Bradlees and Caldor. I stand true by my opinion that these stores are distressed and probably need to just fold soon.

Here's the K-Mart in Cromwell, Connecticut. Picture quality sucked because I wasn't that anxious to get out and photo it.

[store215]

Originally posted by XISMZERO
All the K-Mart stores left around me are called "Big K Mart". Are all K-Marts reffered to as "Big"? It seems like they rebranded K-Mart in this "Big" trend around the turn of the millennium. Anyway, everytime I go into one of these stores it reminds me of old retail i.e. Bradlees and Caldor. I stand true by my opinion that these stores are distressed and probably need to just fold soon.

Here's the K-Mart in Cromwell, Connecticut. Picture quality sucked because I wasn't that anxious to get out and photo it.

All my Kmarts are "Big", except one store. This store was a "Big K" until last year when it got completely remodeled (even though it didnt need a remodel as it was a newer store to begin with). The Big K signs came down and the new logo "Kmart" signs replaced them.