Express Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to close 100 stores across the U.S., including four in Georgia, one of them in Commerce. Two other stores in our area are not on the list: the ones at the Mall of Georgia in Buford and at the factory outlets in Dawsonville.
Georgia News Network reports the retailer said that it received a non-binding letter of intent from a group of investors to purchase the company, which has over 500 stores worldwide.
Express said 95 stores would be closing . The Georgia stores are:
Atlantic Station in Atlanta
Town Center at Cobb in Kennesaw
North Point in Alpharetta
Commerce Outlets in Commerce
About the Author
Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.
Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.
He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.
He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.
