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
February 15, 2006 – McCaffery Interests, Inc.
of Chicago, Illinois, (www.mccafferyinterests.com) is pleased to
announce they have executed leases 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 $160,000,000 The Market Common, Myrtle Beach
project, is the first phase and the focal point of the redevelopment program
approved by the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base Redevelopment Authority and the
City of Myrtle Beach.
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: 2005 Winner of the Award for Excellence from the Urban Land
Institute; 2004 Winner of the Design and Development Award from ICSC; 2004
Finalist 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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