Toys & Co. closes Park Road Shopping Center store
Toys & Co. has closed the doors of its Park Road Shopping Center store, moving all operations to its larger location in the Cotswold Shopping Center.
Sherry Stone, manager of Cotswold store, said seven employees from the Park Road location moved to the Cotswold store, bringing the total headcount there to about 30. At 9,000 square feet, the Cotswold store is almost twice as big as the Park Road location.
The company, Stone said, will be better able to host more activities such as kids’ yoga, games and crafts in the combined store. Further, Toys & Co. will use the larger staff to grow its online business through the 3,500 square foot warehouse at the Cotswold location.
“We hated to do it, but sometimes you have to make changes to move forward and to grow,” said Stone, adding that the company hopes to expand in Charlotte.
Toys & Co. – a privately owned retailer that sells toys, dolls and stuffed animals – now operates four stores in Charlotte, Myrtle Beach and Greensboro.
New Sugar Creek Brewing Co. is expanding
Sugar Creek Brewing Co. is growing to meet demand for its popular Belgian-style beer.
The Charlotte-based brewery will invest in a new 16-head bottling machine capable of producing 3,500 bottles per hour as well as a 750-milliliter bottling machine that will handle its caged and corked bottling, according to a statement released Tuesday.
Sugar Creek’s new equipment, which will be up and running by May, will allow it to start distributing six packs and 750-milliliter bottles to local grocers, bottle shops and restaurants. It’ll also start distributing its products in South Carolina as early as June.
The investment, Sugar Creek said, will also allow the company to add jobs at its brewhouse and distribution operations.
“Sugar Creek is excited to continue its growth in the Charlotte-area community, expanding its reach to consumers while providing local employment opportunities” said co-founder Eric Flanigan.
The brewing company, which opened last October, is located at 215 Southside Drive in Charlotte and is open seven days a week. Sugar Creek’s beer selection consists primarily of Belgian styles – including a pale ale, a witbier, a saison and a dubbel – and in its tap room Sugar Creek also serves Belgian-inspired street food like Döner kebabs.
Charlotte’s third Fresh Market to Open March 4
Charlotte’s newest Fresh Market will open March 4 in the Promenade on Providence shopping center.
A grand opening of the grocery store will take place at 8 that morning and will feature chef demonstrations, food sampling and drawings to win Fresh Market gift cards.
The store will also give away a reusable shopping bag and a sample-sized bag of gourmet coffee to the first 1,000 customers.
The 27,000-square-foot store, located at 10828 Providence Road, includes, among other features, a bakery, an organic produce department and a meat counter that offers ready-to-serve meals.
In its store opening announcement Thursday, Fresh Market said the new store will bring about 90 new jobs to the area.
The store will be Fresh Market’s third Charlotte location and the company’s 20th in North Carolina.
Workout Anytime expanding into Charlotte
Workout Anytime is opening six new clubs in the Charlotte area this yearand first two will open early this spring. The gyms will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and every day of the year.
For now, the low-cost clubs are concentrated mostly in Georgia and Tennessee, said Kevin Edmonds, area developer of Workout Anytime in North Carolina.
There are currently about a dozen clubs in North Carolina – in Cary, Greensboro and Winston-Salem – and in addition to the new Charlotte locations, clubs are also slated to open in Asheboro and Winston-Salem early this year. The company is planning for an “additional 8-12 coming before the end of 2016” in Charlotte.
The first two Charlotte-area clubs will be in the Catawba Village shopping Center on Mount Holly-Huntersville Road (opening in March) and on Roxie Street Northeast in Kannapolis (opening in April.) Membership pre-sales have begun, Edmonds said.
Basic membership to the workout facility is $15 a month, Edmonds said, and a premium membership for $25 a month includes unlimited tanning.
This story was originally published February 6, 2015 at 11:20 AM with the headline "Toys & Co. closes Park Road Shopping Center store."