PA Store Closings: 42 Justice, LOFT, Catherine's Shutting Down

Justin Heinze
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PENNSYLVANIA — Ascena, the parent company of clothing retailers including Justice, Lane Bryant, Ann Taylor, LOFT, Catherine's, Lou & Grey and Cacique, will shut down around half of its 2,800 stores, including many in Pennsylvania.

Ascena filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday. All locations outside the U.S. will also close.

The Ann Taylor store at 1713 Walnut Street in Philadelphia will close, according to Business Insider, along with the Ann Taylor Factory and LOFT Outlet at Philadelphia Mills on Franklin Mills Circle.

Disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said the last few months negatively impacted "meaningful progress" which was being made to get the company back on track financially.

The closings include 35 Justice stores across Pennsylvania. The "tween" clothing store, which caters to girls ages 6 to 12, has more than 800 stores across the country.

According to USA Today, Pennsylvania Justice locations slated for closing are:

  • Altoona: 5580 Goods Lane, Suite 1132

  • Camp Hill: 3516 Capital City Mall Drive

  • Center Valley: 2960 Center Valley Parkway, Unit #736

  • Cranberry Township: 20412 Route 19, Suite 315

  • Doylestown: 430 N. Main St., Space 14

  • Dubois: 5522 Shaffer Road, Unit 4

  • Erie: 5800 Peach St., Sp 110

  • Exton: 281 Main Street, Suite G1

  • Gettysburg: 1863 Gettysburg Village Drive, Suite 850

  • Greensburg: 5256 Route 30, Space 154

  • King of Prussia: 160 N. Gulph Road, Suite 2317

  • Lancaster: 1110 Stanley K. Tanger Ave., Space 1110

  • Lancaster: 436 Park City Center

  • Langhorne: 2300 E. Lincoln Highway #141

  • Monaca: 538 Beaver Valley Mall

  • Monroeville: 118 Monroeville Mall Blvd., Suite 5B

  • Monroeville: 4100 William Penn Highway, Space 36

  • North Wales: 276 Montgomery Mall

  • Pennsdale: 300 Lycoming Mall Circle, Suite 207

  • Philadelphia: 1543 Franklin Mills Circle

  • Philadelphia: 907-937A Market Street, Space C220

  • Pittsburgh: 100 Robinson Dr., Suite 2210

  • Pittsburgh: 301 South Hills Village

  • Pottstown: 18 West Lightcap Road, Suite 1131

  • Scranton: Rt. 6 Scranton-Carbondale Highway, Space 773

  • Springfield: 400 South State Road

  • Tarentum: 501 Pittsburgh Mills Circle

  • Uniontown: 1201 Mall Run Road

  • Warminster: 966 West Street Road, Space 2200

  • West Homestead: 218 West Bridge St.

  • Whitehall: 2655 McArthur Road

  • Wilkes Barre: 48 Wyoming Valley Mall

  • Willow Grove: 2500 Moreland Rd., Space 2020

  • Wyomissing: 784 Woodland Road

  • York: 2819 Concord Road

Ascena operates 10 Catherine's stores in Pennsylvania, which will all close:

  • Easton: 3712 Easton Nazareth Highway

  • Harrisburg: 5125 Jonestown Road

  • Monroeville: 4100 William Penn Highay

  • Pittsburgh: 1584 Park Manor Blvd

  • Pittsburgh: 4801 McKnight Road

  • Pittsburgh: 623A Clariton Boulevard

  • Pottstown: Philadelphia Premium Outlets, 18 W Lightcap Road

  • Springfield: 439 Baltimore Pike

  • Whitehall: 1207 Whitehall Mall

  • Wilkes Barre: 3320 Wilkes Barre Twp Comm

More closings could also be coming. The final number and locations of stores that are closing has not yet been determined, the company stated in the news release. Ascena previously closed all Dressbarn stores, including in Pennsylvania, last year.

This article originally appeared on the Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch