On Monday, Kenneth Cole is pulling up its North Carolina stakes and closing down its SouthPark store. Also, an art gallery based in Davidson is also pulling out of the mall.
The SouthPark location (Kenneth Cole's only in the state) is one of nine stores that the trendy, New York-based apparel retailer is shuttering this year, including its flagship Rockefeller Center shop. A manager at the SouthPark store said that a 70-percent-off closing sale is ongoing through Monday, the store's last day.
And Wooden Stone Gallery, which sells handcrafted, functional art (think vases, wine holders, jewelry boxes and such) is also closing Monday. A manager said they will be open intermittently until then, without set hours. The gallery, which opened a SouthPark store in late 2009, consolidating its operations back at its original Davidson location. A manager said the store didn't plan to be in SouthPark for the long term, and the retailer had enjoyed its year there.
A SouthPark spokesman said the mall has tenants for both spaces, but isn't ready to publicly announce them.