Triple the shopping experience!
Chico’s, White House|Black Market, and soma by Chico’s all
scheduled to open at The Market Common, Myrtle Beach
October 11, 2005 – McCaffery Interests,
Inc. of Chicago, Illinois, (www.mccafferyinterests.com) is pleased to
announce they have finalized the terms of a business agreement with
Chico’s FAS, Inc., of Fort Myers, Florida (www.chicos.com)
(NYSE: CHS) to open three new stores at The Market Common, Myrtle
Beach located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, scheduled to open 2007.
Customers will find triple the shopping experience with Chico’s,
White House|Black Market, and soma by Chico’s all located within
the same property.
Chico’s FAS, Inc. is a retailer of exclusively
designed private label, sophisticated women’s clothing, complementary
accessories and other non-clothing gift items. The Chico’s brand
focuses on women who are 35 years old and up with a focus on comfort
and easy wear pants, skirts, and jackets that are not constructed and
not tailored.
White House|Black Market offers fashion and
basic merchandise assorted primarily in the classic and timeless
colors of white, black and related shades targeted at educated,
middle-income to upper-income, youthful women who lead active work and
social lives.
The new concept store soma by Chico’s offers
an intimate boutique environment focused on Chico’s philosophy of
supreme comfort, high quality and unique design, translated into a
collection of intimate apparel, loungewear and sleepwear.
As of March 2005, Chicos FAS, Inc. operated 672
women’s specialty stores in 47 states, the District of Columbia, the
Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The company owns 456 Chico’s
front-line stores, 25 Chico’s outlet stores and 165 White House|Black
Market stores, franchisees own and operates 12 Chico’s stores.
About The Market Common, Myrtle Beach.
Located on a 3,790-acre parcel of land with
$30-million of new infrastructure including 29 acres of lakes, new
community parks and four miles of new roads, The Market Common, Myrtle
Beach at 121-acres is the focal point of the redevelopment program by
the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base Redevelopment Authority.
McCaffery Interests will bring to Myrtle Beach the same creative and
thoughtful development initiative that earned the company national
recognition with the award-winning mixed-use project, The Market
Common, Clarendon in Arlington, Virginia.
About McCaffery Interests, Inc.
Well respected in the commercial industry for
creating exciting environments, McCaffery Interests has received
numerous prestigious awards including: 2004 Winner for the National
Association of Home Builders’ Pillars of the Industry Award; 2001
Washington Business Journal Best Retail Deal of the Year; 2001 Delta
Associates’ Mid-Atlantic Community Impact Award for an Apartment
Property; 1999 Transwestern Carey Winston DC Area Commercial Real
Estate Services Trendsetter of the Year.
Established in 1991, McCaffery Interests, Inc. is a privately held
real estate development company specializing in the development,
leasing, and construction and management of urban mixed-use properties
nationwide. McCaffery Interests, Inc. is located at 737 Michigan
Avenue, Suite 2050, Chicago, IL 60611, (312) 944-3777.
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Media Contact:
Pamela Austin
McCaffery Interests, Inc
Ph: (312) 944-3777 x-31
email me
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