Costco Wholesale Corp. is opening the first of four area stores today in the Midtown Marketplace. Home Depot is scheduled to open there in February. Plans also call for other retail and office tenants. Bankruptcy declaration bodes ill for those who own TWA stock. Trans World Airlines shareholders and unsecured creditors stand to be the biggest losers if the airline is acquired by American Airlines.
Shareholders are last in line for distributions in bankruptcy court.
Page C1 . Movie screens fade to black. Springfield now has 50 percent fewer movie screens than it did in 1997. The decline reflects a national trend of contracting numbers of screens following a building boom in recent years. Wehrenberg Theatres closed its Battlefield Mall theater earlier this week.