Forever 21 store at Fashion Fair Mall in northeast Fresno to close

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- There volition soon beryllium a ample vacancy astatine Fashion Fair Mall successful northeast Fresno.

Forever 21 started its liquidation merchantability connected Tuesday with ample signs saying, "everything indispensable go."

The retailer took implicit the three-floor determination successful 2011 aft Fresno-based Gottschalks closed successful 2009.

"It's kinda shocking and a small bittersweet origin I consciousness similar I'm ever successful determination similar that's the archetypal store I ever spell to erstwhile I'm here," said Chloe Machanin.

Shoppers said they're going to miss however convenient the retailer was.

"It's benignant of upsetting. The apparel were benignant of inexpensive and they person a batch of bully stuff," said Dulce Birrientos.

"There's a batch of inactive cute, trendy worldly portion remaining successful a truly bully terms country for a batch of radical these days," added Machanin.

On Tuesday, signs were displayed wrong and extracurricular the retail space, alerting customers that everything was connected sale, offering 10% to 40% disconnected the full store.

A caller nonfiction from the Wall Street Journal reported the retail elephantine whitethorn person to record for bankruptcy.

The quality of Forever 21 having fiscal issues comes aft crafting retailer Joanne Fabrics announced it would adjacent its River Park location.

The closure is 1 of 500 locations acceptable to unopen down arsenic Joanne's navigates its bankruptcy process.

The merchant filed Chapter 11 successful January, and that was the 2nd clip successful little than a year.

"Fresno we person a problem," said Former Fresno State Econ Professor, William Rice.

Rice has been a advisor for hundreds of businesses implicit the years. He said retailers are optimizing to cater to their customers but it's inactive not capable for them to support their doors unfastened for business.

"When idiosyncratic starts talking to maine astir closing a business, I get a bosom attack. This can't happen, we got to travel up with immoderate strategies," said Rice.

He adds that erstwhile a concern closes, dollars don't get spent.

That could person an interaction connected our section system but lone clip volition archer however terrible it could be.

Forever 21 has not announced erstwhile it volition close.

Action News has reached retired to the corp and Fashion Fair Mall to effort and get much answers, but we person yet to perceive back.

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