Austin Business Journal: RadioShack to shut three Austin stores - 2006-03-24
Austin Business Journal: RadioShack to shut three Austin stores - 2006-03-24
I am old enough to remember Hancock Center when it was an outdoor shopping Mall with fountains in the courtyard. There was a Dillards, a cafeteria, a drug store, Sears, a small HEB and Radio Shack. This was back when I-35 still had a railroad crossing over it, stopping traffic on the highway whenever a train came through. It was the only Interstate in the US with a railroad crossing. Of course the highway has been changed and so has Hancock Center. The fountains are long gone. Dillards and all the other clothing stores, except Sears, closed up and left. The HEB renovated and expanded into the main commercial property at Hancock Center. Radio Shack remained there too. It's not as glamorous as it was in the old days when it first opened, but it's comforting to know that it has remained in the same location all these years.
Radio Shack recently announced that it was closing three of its Austin locations and I am glad to see that, according to this article, the Hancock Center Radio Shack has dodge the bullet on this round of closures. However, I imagine it won't be long before that store is on the chopping block too, with all the mega electronics stores like Best Buy and Frys taking all their business. And if the Best Buy does go into the new Mueller development across I-35 from Hancock Center as proposed, it seems like it would be almost impossible for that small store to compete.
I am old enough to remember Hancock Center when it was an outdoor shopping Mall with fountains in the courtyard. There was a Dillards, a cafeteria, a drug store, Sears, a small HEB and Radio Shack. This was back when I-35 still had a railroad crossing over it, stopping traffic on the highway whenever a train came through. It was the only Interstate in the US with a railroad crossing. Of course the highway has been changed and so has Hancock Center. The fountains are long gone. Dillards and all the other clothing stores, except Sears, closed up and left. The HEB renovated and expanded into the main commercial property at Hancock Center. Radio Shack remained there too. It's not as glamorous as it was in the old days when it first opened, but it's comforting to know that it has remained in the same location all these years.
Radio Shack recently announced that it was closing three of its Austin locations and I am glad to see that, according to this article, the Hancock Center Radio Shack has dodge the bullet on this round of closures. However, I imagine it won't be long before that store is on the chopping block too, with all the mega electronics stores like Best Buy and Frys taking all their business. And if the Best Buy does go into the new Mueller development across I-35 from Hancock Center as proposed, it seems like it would be almost impossible for that small store to compete.
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