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21-523: University Place may refer to: University Place (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) , a shopping mall formerly known as University Mall University Place, Manchester, a building of the University of Manchester , England University Place (Manhattan) , a street in Manhattan, New York City University Place (Orem, Utah) University Place, Washington ,

42-577: A city in the State of Washington Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title University Place . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University_Place&oldid=977589722 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

63-633: A clearance center. In April 2014, the closure of the Roses store was announced as well. In late 2014, Madison Marquette announced that University Mall would be renamed University Place. By late 2015, the name change was complete, with a website update along with language referencing the new name, including signage and facades at the mall now being named University Place. Southern Season closed its store at University Place in January 2020 and shifted its operations to an online business model. In June 2021,

84-760: A franchisee following the successful debut of a Save-a-Lot grocery franchised to Variety Wholesalers adjacent to the Roses located in Raleigh, North Carolina. However, the Elizabeth City Save-a-Lot has closed as of September 30, 2017. In 2015 Roses Express moved into the old Food Lion at Hillman Square shopping center on 103rd Street also in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2017, Roses opened a new location in Gainesville, Florida. On May 11, 2024,

105-459: A store in Morristown, Tennessee . From this point on until the 1990s, Roses began replacing smaller stores with these large shopping center locations. These shopping centers stores upgraded the lunch counters that had been a feature in most of the older downtown stores with cafeterias. In the late 1970s, the upscale PHR Center Shops (about six remained) were merged into the main operation while

126-429: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages University Place (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) The mall originally opened with Ivey's and Belk (Belk-Leggett Horton) in 1973, and Roses Stores as a junior anchor. It was developed by E. N. Richards and originally featured 78 stores. Ivey's became Dillard's in 1990. In 2002, after The Streets at Southpoint

147-674: The Chapel Hill Town Council approved a special use permit for a major redevelopment of University Place. 35°55′40″N 79°01′37″W  /  35.92778°N 79.02694°W  / 35.92778; -79.02694 Roses Stores Roses Discount Stores (originally known as Rose's 5¢ 10¢ 25¢ Stores ) is a regional discount store in the United States with its headquarters in Henderson, North Carolina . The chain has stores in fifteen states, primarily in

168-793: The Henderson store in June 1915 following dissolution of a partnership that had operated stores in Henderson and Charlotte. The chain expanded first in nearby Oxford (1916), then Roxboro (April 1917), Louisburg (March 1918) and in the Rosemary section of Roanoke Rapids (August 1918). With these five stores proving profitable, Rose and other family members began to expand into a wider area in 1920, first into South Carolina (Store No. 6, Mullins) and Virginia (Store No. 7, Franklin). Westward expansion began through North Carolina into Lenoir (Store No. 8), Statesville (Store No. 9) and elsewhere. When

189-673: The South. Roses was purchased by Variety Wholesalers Inc. in 1997 and the company's Roses Division has approximately 175 stores which compete chiefly with Walmart and Target . In 2010, the Roses Division began expanding beyond its original base of stores in the South, opening stores in Pennsylvania , Ohio , and Indiana . Rose's Stores, Inc was founded in Henderson, North Carolina in 1915 by Paul Howard Rose (1880–1955). A merchant from his youth, Rose took possession of

210-596: The chain incorporated in 1927, there were around 30 stores. Further expansion into Tennessee (Newport, No. 44, 1929) and Georgia (Dawson, No. 74, 1935) completed what would be the core of Roses' market area, which persists through to today. Most stores were in small towns, but in 1938 the company began opening outlets in the Hampton Roads, Virginia , area, which would become its dominant urban market. Store 105 opened in 1938 on Colley Avenue in Norfolk, around

231-852: The company to open stores in government-owned neighborhood shopping clusters in housing areas created for war industry workers. Following the war, Roses' first real shopping center store opened in the Midtown Center at Wards Corner, also in Norfolk. Roses found the shopping center location successful and quickly went on to open stores in newly constructed centers throughout its marketing area. Early shopping center stores include No. 127 in Greenville, South Carolina's Lewis Plaza; No. 130 in Raleigh's Cameron Village; No. 132 in Greensboro's Summit Center, and No. 135 in Jacksonville, North Carolina's New River Plaza. Each of these stores

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252-562: The company's distribution centers located primarily in the Carolinas and these stores were subsequently closed. Starting in mid-2012, Roses launched a prototype combination store located in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, incorporating a full grocery department with complete produce, meat, dairy, and frozen food departments. The grocery location was replaced in 2015 with a Save-a-Lot grocery store operated by Variety Wholesalers as

273-560: The corner from where, three years later, the company would open a large department store, the PHR Center Shop, at the time Norfolk's most modern store. The following year, Store 106 (Ocean View Norfolk) and 107 (Downtown Virginia Beach) cemented the company's position in Hampton Roads. At the beginning of World War II, there were 118 Rose's 5-10-25 cent stores. During the conflict, housing boards in Norfolk and Portsmouth asked

294-514: The former Kerr Drug space. Glee Kids, a children's specialty clothing store, moved nearby. TrySports, a specialty fitness retailer, also opened the same year next door to Southern Season. Fine Feathers is a women’s apparel boutique that began operating at University Square in 1976. William Travis Jewelry, a custom jewelry design store founded and owned by William Travis Kukovich, opened in 2002 in University Square. Kukovich's anchor store

315-491: The remaining small stores were grouped into a division called "P.H. Rose Variety Stores", which the company continued to operate until it sold the remaining 50+ locations to Variety Wholesalers in 1984 to concentrate on their larger stores. When Wal-Mart first moved into the region in the early 1980s, its larger store format seriously diminished Roses' market share and profitability. Roses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1993, and had emerged from it by May 1995. In 1997, Roses

336-692: The stores have continued to operate under the Roses name. Roses has begun opening stores in Jacksonville, Florida, again in 2011 and 2012. They are located on Arlington Road and on Lem Turner Road in an old K-Mart store. In the early 1970s Roses had been recognized as one of the nation's most rapidly growing retail chains. It was in the early 1970s that the company expanded into Florida opening 4 stores in metro Jacksonville, 4 stores in Metro Orlando, and 1 store each in Holiday and Tarpon Springs. This expansion soon created serious supply chain problems with

357-623: The town rejected the idea of moving the library there, so the library moved into temporary inline space in the mall instead while the current library underwent a renovation and expansion project. In 2013, several businesses from University Square on Franklin Street moved to the mall itself. The Kidzu Children's Museum was the first, taking over the temporary space of the Chapel Hill Library. Four others soon followed, as William Travis Jewelry, Fine Feathers, and Peacock Alley moved into

378-467: Was 500 square feet, about a third of the size of the store he replaced it with. His new store at the mall, which replaced the store at University Square, opened on September 2, 2013, and is 3000 square feet. Kukovich's last store was ranked as one of the JCK top 50 jewelry designer stores in the country In late 2013, Dillard's closed its store and was replaced with a movie theater. It had been converted into

399-617: Was completed, Belk closed its store at the mall and South Square Mall store in Durham and consolidated both stores into one larger store at Southpoint. Upmarket gourmet retailer Southern Season bought and renovated the former Belk space in 2003. The mall received an exterior and interior renovation 2010. In 2010, the Chapel Hill Public Library initially planned a permanent move into the mall by taking over Dillard's space. However, Dillard's opted to remain in place and

420-596: Was larger than the previous, leading the company in the direction it would take in the 1960s. When a shopping center location opened in Spartanburg's Pinewood Plaza in 1961, the building had around 50,000 square feet (4,600 m ) of floor space and advertised itself as a "discount department store". Other similar stores opened in Greensboro, Louisville, Roanoke and Virginia Beach before a prototype store that opened in High Point, North Carolina. In 1965, Roses opened

441-493: Was purchased by Variety Wholesalers, which dates back to the 1932 opening of Pope's 5 & 10 cent stores in Fuquay-Varina and Angier, North Carolina. There were 106 Roses stores in operation when Variety completed the purchase. Variety quickly returned the Roses stores to profitability and soon began an expansion program that has doubled the number of stores. Rose's Stores, Inc. was renamed Variety Stores, Inc. in 2001 but

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