Residents Worry About The Future of Downtown Village After Kmart’s Closure

== 6/26/2023 9:52 AM ==
VILLAGE, MINECRAFT
Residents in Village are starting to be concerned about the future of Downtown Village after Kmart, a long time downtown department store tenant will close down in a few days. Kmart announced to be closing their Downtown Village store on July 1st due to poor sales, the store was originally a block of stores on Grape Road including S.S. Kresge, which later became Kmart. “They’ve been trying to revive downtown for years and the only places that was worth shopping at down here was JCPenney and Kmart, well now Kmart is leaving and JCPenney isn’t doing so well either.” says Sam Pizzaro of Village. JCPenney told Village Times that there is no future company plans to close the Downtown Village store as the location is one of the better performing stores in the company but most residents think with the future openings of 17Xpress, Dollar America and Dunkin’ is not healthy for Downtown. “Downtown Village is meant to be department stores, restaurants, city offices and parks, not fast food places, sketchy convenience stores and discount shops.” says Carol White of Village.