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2026 is already shaping up to be a brutal year for GameStop (NYSE: GME) stores. This month, nearly 500 locations have been marked for closure. The shutterings come as GameStops CEO Ryan Cohen doubled down on the company and bought another half a million shares in GME stock. Heres what you need to know. GameStop is closing hundreds more stores Over the past year, it seems that GameStop has had one primary focus: reducing costs by shuttering stores. At the beginning of 2025, the video game chain had around 2,325 locations in the United States. But by December, it had shuttered 590 of them. The same month, the company announced plans to close a significant number of additional stores during its 2025 fiscal year. GameStops financial 2025 ends on January 31. As Fast Company previously reported, at the beginning of this month, customers and social media users reported that their local GameStop stores were showing signs of imminent closure, but at the time, it was not known how many locations were shutting down. Now, Ohios WKYC Studios has assembled a list of the stores it says are closing. That list, which you can see below, is based on GameStops store location tool, which marks hundreds of locations as closed. The list includes more than 470 locations across 43 states. Fast Company has reached out to GameStop to confirm the closures. Why is GameStop closing stores? GameStop isnt unique in its decision to close stores. Over the past several years, brick-and-mortar retailers of all stripes have shuttered locations. Many of these chains are dealing with the same problems that have led to GameStop’s store closures. Those problems include declining store foot traffic as customers shift their buying habits online, rising operating costs for physical stores, and weakening consumer spending. But as a video game-focused retailer, GameStop faces a unique challenge, too. Over the past decade, video games have gone from physical items you need to buy on disk to being distributed digitally for download or streaming over the internet. This shift to digital delivery of video games has cut out the video game retailer as a middleman. With customers now able to buy video games directly on their consoles and have them downloaded in minutes, there is no longer a need to trek to a video game store to buy a physical copy. How is GameStop stock performing? Its impossible to talk about GameStop without talking about its stock (NYSE: GME). Thats because GME was one of the original meme-stock poster boys. Back in 2021, during the height of the meme stock craze, retail investors poured their money into GME, sending the stock soaring. At one point, GME was trading over $120 per share. But in the years since, the stock has declined as meme stock frenzy subsided. Over the past twelve months, the stock has fallen by around 21%. GME stock closed at $21.69 per share on Wednesday. However, this week the stock received a bit of a boost. As Investing.com reported, GME stock rose by about 4% after market close on Tuesday after it was revealed that GameStops CEO Ryan Cohen bought an additional 500,000 shares in the company. This share purchase increases Cohens ownership of the companys outstanding stock to about 9.2% and suggests that GameStops CEO is optimistic about the share prices future potential. List of GameStop stores closing According to WKYC Studios, the following GameStop locations are closing: Alabama Birmingham River Ridge, 4507 Riverview Pkwy. Hartselle Hartselle Plaza, 1199 Highway 31 NW Mobile Airport Boulevard Center, 3691 Airport Blvd. Opelika Gateway Commons, 3000 Pepperell Pkwy. Troy Troy Plaza, 1410 Highway 231 S. Arkansas Batesville Eagle Mountain Center, 17 Eagle Mountain Blvd. Little Rock Mabelvale Plaza, 10215 Mabelvale Plaza Drive West Memphis Service Road West Memphis, 65 S. Service Road Arizona Bullhead City Bullhead City Shopping Center, 2840 Highway 95 Flagstaff Woodlands Village, 2700 S. Woodlands Village Lake Havasu Shops at Lake Havasu, 5601 Highway 95 N Mesa Superstition Springs Mall, 6555 E. Southern Ave. Phoenix Desert Sky Esplanade, 7515 W. Encanto Blvd. Phoenix Happy Valley Towne Center, 2501 W. Happy Valley Road Phoenix Maryvale Plaza, 5215 W. Indian School Road Phoenix Village Plaza, 12611 N. Tatum Blvd. Tucson Campbell Plaza, 2910 N. Campbell Ave. Tucson Eastpointe Marketplace, 6970 E. 22nd St. California Auburn Willow Creek S/C, 2799 Grass Valley Highway Bakersfield Panama Ln Bakersfield, 2200 Panama Lane Bell Bell Gardens Marketplace, 6939 Eastern Ave. Canoga Park Topanga Plaza Mall, 6600 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Capitola Brown Ranch Market, 2555 Clares St. Coachella Coachella Gateway, 49255 Grapefruit Blvd. Compton Gateway Towne Center, 200 Towne Center Drive Corona Corona Crossing, 2620 Tuscany St. Culver City Venice and Overland, 3855 Overland Ave. Davis 4625 2nd St. Emeryville BridgeCourt Emeryville, 3980 Hollis St. Escondido Escondido Promenade, 1250 Auto Park Way Fresno First and Shields, 3235 N. 1st St. Gardena Manhattan and Crenshaw, 15900 Crenshaw Blvd. Gilroy Pacheco Pass, 890 Renz Lane Hayward Skywest Commons, 1159 W. A St. Inglewood 3550 W. Century Blvd. Inglewood Marketplace at Hollywood Park, 3351 W. Century Blvd. Lancaster Eastside Town Center, 44421 20th St E. Lemon Grove Lemon Grove Shopping Center, 7048 Broadway Livermore Vintner Square, 1418 First St. Madera Madera Commons, 2180 W. Cleveland Ave. Mission Viejo Mission Viejo Mall, 236 The Shops At Mission Viejo Oroville Las Plumas Plaza, 1124 Oro Dam Blvd. Palm Springs South Sunrise Way, 425 S. Sunrise Way Palmdale The Marketplace Palmdale, 39450 10th St. W Petaluma Washington Square, 365 S. McDowell Blvd. Pleasant Hill Pleasant Hill Shopping Center, 2360 Monument Blvd. Pleasanton Stoneridge Mall, 1384 Stoneridge Mall Road Porterville Porterville Marketplae, 1276 W. Henderson Ave. Redwood City Woodside Central, 2527 El Camino Real Rohnert Park Rohnert Plaza, 4645 Redwood Drive Sacramento Folsom Boulevard, 1420 65th St. Sacramento Meadowview and Freeport, 1441 Meadowview Road San Bruno Tanforan, 1150 El Camino Real San Diego Loma Square, 3357 Rosecrans St. San Fernando Workman Street, 801 S. Workman St. San Jose Westgate Mall, 1546 Saratoga Ave. San Leandro Fashion Faire Place, 15100 Hesperian Blvd. San Pedro Park Plaza, 980 N. Western Ave. Santa Fe Springs Gateway Plaza, 10635 Carmenita Road Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Plaza Mall, 1029 Santa Rosa Plaza Selma Garden Vineyard, 3352 Floral Ave. Spring Valley Spring Valley Shopping Center, 8626 Jamacha Blvd. Stockton Lower Sacramento Center, 7910 Lower Sacramento Road Van Nuys Patomac Plaza, 6800 Balboa Blvd. Ventura Pacific View Ventura Mall, 3301 E. Main St. Watsonville Main St. Watsonville, 1441 Main St. Woodland Yolo Polo Plaza, 1780 E. Main St. Yuba City Yuba City Marketplace, 1070 Harter Pkwy. Colorado Aurora Hoffman Heights, 757 Peoria St. Aurora Quincy Place Shops, 16891 E. Quincy Ave. Broomfield Flatiron Crossing Mall, 1 W. Flatiron Crossing Drive Colorado Springs The Citadel Mall, 750 Citadel Drive Fort Collins Front Range Village, 2842 Council Tree Ave. Fort Collins Magnolia St Fort Collins, 1275 E. Magnolia St. Loveland Denver Ave Loveland, 1389 Denver Ave., Loveland Connecticut Enfield Enfield Square Mall, 90 Elm St. Lisbon Crossroads at Lisbon, 193 River Road Newington Newington Shopping Center, 2997 Berlin Turnpike Stratford Stratford Square, 411 Barnum Ave. Waterbury Brass Mills Mall, 495 Union St. Delaware Bear Governors Square, 1015 Governors Place Dover Dover Mall Food Court, 3084 Dover Mall Wilmington Kirkwood Plaza, 4345 Kirkwood Highway Florida Clearwater Clearwater Mall, 2723 Gulf to Bay Blvd. Coral Springs Maplewood Plaza, 1158 N. University Drive Deland Gibbs Plaza, 1697 N. Woodland Blvd. Deltona Shoppes of East Deltona, 121 Howland Blvd. Destin Island Palm Shoppes, 16055 Emerald Coast Pkwy. Fort Myers Cypress Woods, 9390 6 Mile Cypress Pkwy. Fort Myers Gulf Coast Town Center, 10021 Gulf Center Drive Jacksonville Lem Turner Road Jacksonville, 12001 Lem Turner Road Lake Worth Lantana Plaza, 5780 S. Jog Road Leesburg US Highway 441 Leesburg, 10300 US Highway 441 Margate Lakewood Shopping Center, 5499 W. Atlantic Blvd. Miami Aventura Mall EB Games, 19575 Biscayne Blvd. Middleburg Plantation Crossing, 1545 Branan Field Road Mulberry Church Ave Mulberry, 6751 N. Church Ave. Naples Market Center, 9960 Business Circle Ocoee Ocoee Commons, 10576 W. Colonial Drive Orlando Lake Fredrica Shopping Center, 3916 S. Semoran Blvd. Palatka Palatka Center, 850 S. Moody Road Pensacola Creighton Commons, 2620 Creighton Road Port Richey US Highway 19 N Port Richey, 8605 US Highway 19 N. Sanford Seminole Center, 3715 S. Orlando Drive Sebring Lakeshore Mall, 901 US 27 North Summerfield 178th Place Summerfield, 11275 SE 178th Place Sunrise Sawgrass Mills Mall, 12801 W. Sunrise Blvd. Tampa Citrus Park Shopping Center, 8502 Citrus Park Drive Georgia Alpharetta North Point Mall, 1198 North Point Circle Atlanta Chamblee Village, 1841 Chamblee Tucker Road Atlanta Howell Mill, 1801 Howell Mill Road NW Atlanta Lenox Square Mall, 3393 Peachtree Road NE Augusta Southpointe Plaza, 3209 Deans Bridge Road Cartersville Shops at Main Street, 455 Cherokee Place Columbus Peachtree Mall, 3131 Manchester Expressway Cumming Cumming Marketplace, 1060 Market Place Blvd. Dublin Dublin Commons, 2421 Highway 80 West Hartwell Hartwell Station, 115 Walmart Drive Locust Grove Bill Gardner Pkwy Locust Grove, 4959 Bill Gardner Way McDonough McDonough Square, 1144 Highway 20 W. Snellville Pharrs Village, 1830 Scenic Highway N Stone Mountain Stone Mountain Festival, 1925 Rockbridge Road Tucker Cofer Crossing, 4363 Lawrenceville Highway Idaho Nampa East Franklin Road Nampa, 5681 E. Franklin Road Post Falls Plaza at Post Falls, 710 N. Cecil Road Illinois Addison Rohlwing Road Addison, 1074 N. Rohlwing Road Alton Alton Corners, 317 Homer Adams Pkwy. Chicago Cermak and Western, 2336 W. Cermak Road Chicago Gateway Center, 1751 W. Howard St. Cicero Cicero Marketplace, 3017 S. Cicero Ave. Decatur Decatur Marketplace, 4641 E. Maryland St. Dekalb Northland Plaza, 2564 Sycamore Road Geneva Randall Square, 1492 S. Randall Road Hodgkins Quarry Outlot, 9404 Joliet Road Homewood Park Palace Plaza, 17925 Halsted St. Joliet Jefferson St. Joliet, 2410 W. Jefferson St. McHenry McHenry Town Center West, N. 2445 Richmond Road New Lenox New Lenox Retail Center, 2344 E. Lincoln Highway Orland Park Lakeview Plaza, 15864 S. LaGrange Road Round Lake Beach Mallard Creek Shopping Center, 716 E. Rollins Road Shorewood Joliet Commons, 1530 IL Route 59 South Elgin South Elgin Commons, 478 Randall Road Tinley Park Tinley Park Plaza, 16205 Harlem Ave. Indiana Carmel Clay Terrace, 14405 Clay Terrace Blvd. Evansville Evansville Pavilion, 6401 E. Lloyd Expressway Greenfield Greenfield Crossing, 1905 Melody Lane Indianapolis College Park, 3269 W. 86th St. Kendallville North Street Kendallville, 2517 E. North St. Merrillville 80th Ave Merrillville, 2623 E. 80th Ave. Munster Calumet Center, 7971 Calumet Ave. New Castle South State Road 3 New Castle, 3187 S. State Road 3 Newburgh High Pointe Drive Newburgh, 8680 High Pointe Drive Noblesville Town and Country, 16763 Clover Road Saint John St. Johns Square, 9939 Wicker Ave. South Bend Erskine Village, 1290 E. Ireland Road Terre Haute Honey Creek Mall, 3401 S. U.S. Highway 41 Iowa Des Moines Southdale Des Moines, 5126 SE14th St. Iowa City Highway 1W Iowa City, 1011 Highway 1W Waterloo Crossroads Mini, 1515 Flammang Drive Kansas Shawnee Mission Shawnee Station, 16310 W. 65th St. Topeka Wanamaker Shopping Center, 1725 SW Wanamaker Road Wichita 29th and Rock, 3000 N. Rock Road Kentucky Alexandria Village Green Center, 6807 Alexandria Pike Berea Shops at Berea, 222 Brenwood St. Campbellsville Campbellsville Bypass, 726 Campbellsville Bypass Danville Danville Manor, 1560 Hustonville Road Florence Florence Mall, 2028 Florence Mall Harlan Woodland Plaza, 2370 S. U.S. Highway 421 Hazard Daniel Boone Plaza, 82 Daniel Boone Plaza Hopkinsville Fort Campbell Boulevarde, 4156 Fort Campbell Blvd. Lawrenceburg 1004 Bypass N. Lawrenceburg, 1004 Bypass N. Louisville Southland Terrace, 3925 7th Street Road Morehead Kroger Center Morehead, 252 Kroger Circle Nicholasville Main Street Nicholasville, 1020 N. Main St. Paducah Kentucky Oaks Mall, 5101 Hinkleville Road Paintsville Mayo Plaza, 431 N. Mayo Trail Louisiana Baton Rouge ONeal Lane Shopping Center, 2060 ONeal Lane Broussard Sugarcrest Center, 219 Saint Nazaire Road Covington River Chase, 69240 Highway 21 Crowley Odd Fellow Road Crowley, 725 Odd Fellows Road Houma Southland Mall Houma, 5953 W. Park Ave. La Place Belle Terre Plaza, 150 Belle Terre Blvd. Leesville Leesville Plaza, 2414 S. 5th St. Monroe Pecanland Mall, 4700 Milhaven Road Morgan City Bayou Vista Plaza, 1079 Highway 90 E New Iberia New Iberia Shopping Center, 1002 Jefferson Terrace Blvd. New Orleans St. Andrew St. New Orleans, 520 Saint Andrew St. Ruston Eagle Plaza, 1407 Eagle Drive Sulphur Sulphur Plaza, 541 N. Cities Service Highway Maine Topsham Topsham Crossing, 127 Topsham Fair Mall Road Maryland Baltimore Parkside Shopping Center, 5114 Sinclair Lane Baltimore Perring Plaza, 1991 E. Joppa Road Ellicott City St. Johns Plaza, 9159 Baltimore National Pike Essex Middlesex Center, 1228 Eastern Blvd. Gambrills Village at Waugh Chapel, 2626 Chapel Lake Drive Salisbury The Commons, 2717 N. Salisbury Blvd. Severna Park Severna Park Marketplace, 543 Ritchie Highway Westminster Town Mall, 400 N. Center St. Massachusetts Brookline Coolidge Corners, 271 Harvard St. Chestnut Hill Shops at Chestnut Hill, 199 Boylston St. East Longmeadow Heritage Park Plaza, 428 N. Main St. Hadley Mountain Farms, 325 Russell St. Holyoke Holyoke At Ingleside, 50 Holyoke St. Lunenburg Lunenburg Crossing, 317 Massachusetts Ave. Malden Broadway Plaza, 44 Broadway Methuen Merrimac Plaza, 184 Haverhill St. North Dartmouth Dartmouth Town Center, 400 State Road Raynham Shaws Plaza, 300 New State Highway Stoughton R.K. Plaza, 1334 Park St. Waltham Waltham Gateway, 1019 Trapelo Road Westfield Westfield Shops, 431 E. Main St. Michigan Ann Arbor Cranbrook Village, 878 W. Eisenhower Pkwy. Caledonia Gaines Marketplace, 1825 Marketplace Drive SE Canton Crossroads Village, 47160 Michigan Ave. Chesterfield Chesterfield Commons, 34830 23 Mile Road Clinton Township Clinton Pointe, 33822 S. Gratiot Ave. Commerce Township Commerce Marketplace, 1721 Haggerty Highway Grand Blanc Grand Blanc Town Center, 6309 Dort Highway Kentwood Woodland Mall, 3169 28th St. SE, Kentwood Lansing Delta Plaza, 5451 W. Saginaw Highway Lansing Eastwood Town Center, 2908 Town Center Blvd. Lansing Marketplace at Delta, 619 N. Marketplace Blvd. Northville Northville Village Center, 17945 Haggerty Road Owosso Riverwood Crossing, 1565 E. Main St. Rochester Hills Hampton Village Center, 2781 S. Rochester Road Shelby Township Shelby Creek, 12185 23 Mile Road, Shelby Township Sturgis Centerville Road Sturgis, 69823 S. Centerville Road Troy Midtown Square, 1333 Coolidge Highway Minnesota Brooklyn Park Jolly Lane Shopping Center, 7655 Jolly Lane Owatonna Owatonna Commons, 1100 W. Frontage Road Rochester Rochester Crossing, 3780 Marketplace Drive NW Mississippi Biloxi Shoppes at Poppes Ferry, 2404 Pass Road Clinton Hammett Crossing, 1011 Hampstead Blvd. Corinth Corinth Commons, 2201 Virginia Lane Greenville South Rivers Market, 1831 Highway 1 S. Grenada Grenada Plaza, 1550 Jameson Drive Picayune Pearl River Plaza, 230 Frontage Road Vicksburg Vicksburg Plaza, 2301 Iowa Ave. Missouri Creve Coeur Heritage Place, 12589 Olive Blvd. Independence Independence Commons, 19130 E. 39th St. S. Independence Market Place Shopping Center, 4201 S. Noland Road Jennings Plaza on the Boulevard, 8025 W. Florissant Ave. Kansas City West Port Landing, 906 Westport Road Lebanon Lebanon Marketplace, 1810 S. Jefferson Ave. Maplewood Maplewood Commons, 1821 Maplewood Commons Drive Raytown Raytown Gregory Square, 9203 E. State Route 350 St. Joseph St. Joseph Plaza, 3302 S. Belt Highway St. Joseph Shoppes at North Plaza, 5301 N. Belt Highway St. Louis South County Center, 134 S. County Center Way Sikeston South Pointe Center, 1213 S. Main St. Nebraska Papillion Market Pointe Shopping Center, 8540 S. 71st Plaza Nevada Fallon Fallon Plaza, 2163 W. Williams Ave. Las Vegas Rainbow Plaza, 947 S. Rainbow Road Las Vegas Tropicana and I-25, 5130 S. Fort Apache Road New Hampshire Claremont Claremont Market, 367 Washington St. Concord Fort Eddy Plaza, 44 Fort Eddy Road Epping Epping Crossing, 25 Fresh River Road Gilford Lake Shore Road Gilford, 1458 Lake Shore Road Plaistow Stateline Plaza, 4 Plaistow Road Salem Rockingham Mall, 92 Cluff Crossing Road Somersworth Tri City Plaza, 176 Tri City Plaza West Lebano Upper Valley Shopping Center, 250 Plainfield Road New Jersey Bayonne South Cove commons, 205 Lefante Way Deptford Deptford Landing, 2000 Clements Bridge Road Newark Newark Shopping Center, 786 Broad St. North Bergen Tonelle Avenue, 2100 88th St. Rockaway Rockaway TownSquare, 301 Mount Hope Ave. Somerdale Evesham Ave Somerdale, 711 Evesham Ave. Somers Point Ocean Heights, 15 Bethel Road South Plainfield Hadley Shopping Center, 4959 Stelton Road Succasunna Roxbury Mall, 275 State Route 101 E New York Amsterdam Amsterdam Commons, 4930 State Highway 30 Bronx Westchester Shopping Center, 1030 Westchester Ave. Brooklyn Bensonhurst Shopping Center, 6713 18th Ave. Brooklyn Bensonhurst, 2141 86th St. Brooklyn Fulton Street and Flatbush, 465 Fulton St. Brooklyn Gateway Center Brooklyn, 470 Gateway Drive Brooklyn Pitkin Avenue, 1622 Pitkin Ave. Buffalo University Plaza, 3500 Main St. Depew Transit Losson Wegmans Center, 4960 Transit Road Evan Mills Johnson Road Evans Mills, 26445 Johnson Road Herkimer EFK Plaza, 320 E. State St. Hudson 424 Fairview Ave. Ithaca Meadows Square, 324 Elmira Road Jamaica Jamaica Avenue, 163-08 Jamaica Ave. Johnstown Johnstown Mall, 222 N. Camrie Ave. Lockport Transit Road Lockport, 5716 S. Transit Road Middletown Galleria At Crystal Run, 1 N. Galleria Drive Monticello Monticello Mall, 36 Thompson Square Mall Plattsburgh Champlain Centre Mall, 60 Smithfield Blvd. Poughkeepsie 44 Plaza Shopping Center, 47 Burnett Blvd. Poughkeepsie Poughkeepsie, 2001 South Road. Ridgewood Myrtle Avenue, 5720 Myrtle Ave. Rochester Eastridge Plaza, 705 E. Ridge Road Rosedale Five Towns Shopping Center, 25301 Rockaway Blvd. Valley Stream Green Acres Mall, 1120 Green Acres Mall Victor Victor Crossing, 400 Commerce Drive Webster Webster Square, 950 Ridge Road West Nyack Palisades Center Mall, 4322 Palisades Center Drive White Plains The Westchester, 125 Westchester Ave. Yonkers Cross County Center, 3 Xavier Drive North Carolina Albermarle Albermarle Shopping Center, 723 Leonard Ave. Burlington Holly Hills Mall, 309 Huffman Mill Road Charlotte The Galleria, 1824 Galleria Blvd. Charlotte Village at Whitehall, 8951 S. Tryon St. Charlotte Wilkinson Crossing, 3220 Wilkinson Blvd. Durham New Hope Commons, 5408 New Hope Commons Drive Durham South Square, 3415 Westgate Drive Gastonia Samarth Plaza, 117 N. Myrtle School Road Greensboro Four Seasons Town Center, 311 Four Seasons Town Center Greensboro Shoppes at Wendover Village, 4203 W. Wendover Ave. Mocksville Cooper Creek Drive Mocksville, 191 Cooper Creek Drive Monroe Monroe Mall, 2115 W. Roosevelt Blvd. Murphy US 19 Murphy, 2320 US 19 Raleigh New Burns Commons, 4531 New Bern Ave. Raleigh Triangle Town Center Mall, 5959 Triangle Town Blvd. Wilmington Mayfaire Town Center, 6858 Main St. Wilmington Pamlico Plaza, 560 Pamlico Plaza North Dakota Fargo Central Marketplace, 1801 45th St. S Ohio Bellefontaine Bellefontaine Square, 2228 S. Main St. Bryan Main Street Bryan, 1243 S. Main St. Cambridge Cambridge Shopping Center, 61267 Southgate Road Canton Canton Centre Mall, 4328 Tuscarawas St. W Canton Carousel Plaza, 3016 Atlantic Blvd. NE Chardon Meadowlands Town Center, 255 Meadowlands Drive Chillicothe North Bridge Street, 950 N. Bridge St. Cleveland Heights Severence Town Center, 3582 Mayfield Road Columbus Graceland Shopping Center, 5057 N. High St. Dublin Sawmill Square, 7646 Sawmill Road Fairfield Township Bridgewater Falls, 3417 Princeton Road Fairview Park Westgate Shopping Center, 3101 Westgate Huber Heights Sulphur Grove, 7746 Brandt Pike Lakewood Lakewood Marketplace, 14869 Detroit Ave. Marietta Rivers Edge Marietta, 227 Captain D. Seeley Mia Drive Marysville Colemans Crossing, 653 Colemans Crossing Sidney Michigan Street Sidney, 2260 Michigan St. Toledo Monroe Street Market, 5333 Monroe St. Troy Troy Towne Center, 1847 W. Main St. Wauseon Airport Highway Wauseon, 482 Airport Highway Oklahoma Glenpool Waco Ave Sapulpa, 12154 S. Waco Ave. Oklahoma City Belle Isle Station, 1841 Belle Isle Blvd. Oklahoma City Silver Springs Point, 7640 NW Expressway Sand Springs Cimmeron Plaza, 430 W. Wekiwa Road Oregon Corvallis Corvallis Market Center, 1580 NW 9th St. Hermiston Hermiston Plaza, 892 S. Highway 395 Pennsylvania Beaver Falls Chippewa Town Center, 200 Chippewa Town Center Collingdale Creekside Plaza, 1207 MacDade Blvd. Easton William Penn Plaza, 3087 William Penn Highway Gilbertsville Douglass Town Center, 173 Holly Road Harrisburg Paxton Town Center, 5125 Jonestown Road Harrisburg Union Square, 3875 Union Deposit Road Hazle Township Hazel Marketplace, 741 Airport Road Indiana Southtowne Plaza, 3100 Oakland Ave. Lehighton Carbon Plaza, 1241 Blakeslee Blvd. Drive E Mechanicsburg Silver Springs Commons, 6520 Carlisle Pike Monaca Brodhead Road Monaca, 3942 Brodhead Road New Castle Union Square, 2519 W. State St. Philadelphia Mayfair Shopping Center, 6420 Frankford Ave. Pittsburgh Montour Church Plaza, 312 McHolme Drive Quakertown Trainers Corner, 210 N. West End Blvd. Reading Exeter Commons, 4611 Perkiomen Ave. Richboro Crossroads Plaza, 800 Bustleton Pike Selinsgrove Susquehanna Valley, 1 Susquehanna Valley Mall Drive Shippenburg Shippen Towne Center, 210 S. Conestoga Drive Springfield Marple Cross Roads, 400 S. State Road Warminster Center Point Place, 892 W. Street Road West Chester West Goshen Town Center, 1115 W. Chester Pike Willow Grove Willow Grove Park Mall, 2500 W. Moreland Road Wyomissing Berkshire Mall, 1665 State Hill Road South Carolina Columbia Killian Road Supercenter, 327 Killian Road Columbia Shoppes at Woodhill, 6080 Grners Ferry Road Greenville White Horse Commons, 6134 White Horse Road Hartsville Retail Row Hartsville, 1211 Retail Row Lancaster University Shops, 933 Lancaster Bypass W Moncks Corner Moncks Corner, 505 Highway 52 North Augusta Knox Avenue North Augusta, 1229 Knox Ave. North Charleston North Rivers Town Center, 7250 Rivers Ave. North Charleston Shoppes at Centre Pointe, 4950 Centre Pointe Drive Orangeburg North Road Plaza, 2843 North Road Rock Hill Rock Hill Galleria, 2391 Dave Lyle Blvd. Seneca Applewood Shopping Center, 290 Applewood Center Place Spartanburg Spartanburg Corners, 200 Dawn Redwood Drive Tennessee Clarksville Riverpoint Shopping Center, 2351 Madison St. Cordova Germantown Parkway Cordova, 465 N. Germantown Pkwy. Franklin Cool Springs Mall, 1800 Galleria Blvd. Greeneville Shops in Greeneville, 3793 E. Andrew Johnson Highway Hermitage H.G. Hill Center, 4469 Lebanon Pike Jackson South Highland Avenue Jackson, 2103 S. Highland Ave. Johnson City Shoppes on West Mark, 3101 W. Market St. Lawrenceburg Lawrenceburg Shopping Center, 2136 N. Locust Ave. Lenoir City Franklin Center, 875 Highway 321 N. Memphis Park Cosmorama, 5043 Park Ave. Murfreesboro College Central, 2866 S. Rutherford Road Nashville Jackson Downs Shopping Center, 3133 Lebanon Pike Savannah Riverboat Plaza, 1800 Wayne Road Shelbyville Main St. Shelbyville, 1854 N. Main St. West Memphis Service Road West Memphis, 650 S. Service Road Texas Allen The Village at Allen, 170 E. Stacy Road Arlington Little School Road Shops, 1245 N. Little School Road Austin Ben White Payload Center, 500 E. Ben White Blvd. Balch Springs Lake June Plaza, 12209 Lake June Road Boerne Menger Crossing, 1375 S. Main St. Cedar Park Lakeline Plaza, 11066 Pecan Park Blvd. Conroe Conroe Center, 1231 N. Loop 336 W Corpus Christi Padre Island Drive, 1805 S. Padre Island Drive Corsicana Corsicana Marketplace, 3811 W. Highway 31 Dallas Glen Oaks Crossing, 4787 Vista Wood Blvd. El Paso Alameda Town Center, 9411 Alameda Ave. El Paso Fountains at Farah, 8889 Gateway West Blvd. Fort Worth Clifford Retail, 301 Clifford Center Drive Garland Ridgewood Village, 2930 S. 1st St. Houston Beechnut Street Houston, 10100 Beechnut St. Houston Bellaire Gessner Center, 8880 Bellaire Blvd. Houston Market at Uvalde, 13706 East Freeway Houston Market Square, 13341 Westheimer Road Houston Oxford Plaza, 10407 North Freeway Houston Royal Oaks, 11807 Westheimer Road Houston Wayside Shopping Center, 900 S. Wayside Drive Huntsville Ravenwood Village, 245 Interstate 45 N Irving MacArthur Park, 7601 N. MacArthur Blvd. Lake Jackson Lake Jackson Shopping Center, 121 Highway 332 W La Marque LaMarque Crossing, 6408 Interstate 45 Laredo Laredo Crossing Shopping Center, 4415 S. Zapata Highway Leon Valley 5601 Bandera Road Lubbock 7th St Lubbock, 1803 7th St. Magnolia Westwood Village, 33020 FM 2978 Road Mansfield Mansfield Crossing, 1301 E. Debbie Lane Marble Falls Highland Lakes, 2400 US Highway 281 McKinney Lake Forest Crossing, 4100 S. Lake Forest Drive Mesquite Town East Mall, 2050 Town East Mall Mission Shary Plaza, 808 S. Shary Road Palmhurst Palmhurst Shopping Center, 4416 N. Conway Ave. Paris Paris Corners, 3842 Lamar Ave. Saginaw Cross Pointe Shopping Center, 1453 N. Saginaw Blvd. San Antonio Alamo Quarry Market, E. 255 Basse Road San Antonio Blanco Road, 7117 Blanco Road San Antonio Huebner Oaks Center, 11745 W. Interstate 10 San Antonio Northwoods Phase III, 1742 N. Loop 1604 E San Antonio Walzem Plaza, 5366 Walzem Road Sephenville Stephenville Shopping Center, 2811 W. Washington St. Sulphur Springs Sulphur Springs Corners, 1707 S. Broadway St. Terrell Terrell Corner, 1888 W. Moore Ave. Tyler State Highway 64 Tyler, 3842 State Highway 64 W Watauga Watauga Town Crossing, 8004 Denton Highway Utah Centerville Centerville Marketplace, 621 W. Marketplace Drive Vermont Rutland Rutland Plaza, 144 Shopping Plaza RoadWilliston Maple Tree Place, 31 Hawthorne St. Virginia Alexandria Kingstowne Towne Center, 5965 Kingstowne Towne Center Chantilly South Riding Market Square, 25050 Riding Plaza, Dulles Dulles Town Center, 21100 Dulles Town Circle Henrico Staple Mill Road Henrico, 9085 Staple Mill Road King George Consumer Row King George, 16418 Consumer Row Richmond Broad and Bowe Center, 1500 W. Broad St. Richmond Northpark Shopping Center, 8131 Brook Road Richmond Shops at Stratford Hill, 7017 Forest Hill Ave. South Boston Shops at Tri Rivers, 3459 Old Halifax Road Sterling Dulles 28 Centre, 22000 Dulles Retail Plaza, Virginia Beach Parkway Plaza, 869 Lynnhaven Pkwy. Williamsburg Cedar Valley Shopping Center, 810 E. Rochambeau Drive Woodbridge Smoketown Station, 13277 Worth Ave. Washington Bothell Downtown Bothell, 18827 Bothell Way NE College Place Meadowbrook Plaza, 1605 SE Meadowbrook Blvd. Federal Way Federal Way Marketplace, 34512 16th Ave. S Kennewick Canyon Lakes Center, 4008 W. 27th Ave. Kirkland Totem Lake, 12525 Totem Lake Blvd. NE Lakewood Lakewood Town Center, 5605 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd. SW Lynnwood 165th Street Crossing, 1402 164th St. SW Redmond Bear Creek Village, 17128 Redmond Way Tacoma Westgate South, 2315 N. Pearl St. West Virginia Bridgeport Meadowbrook, 2399 Meadowbrook Mall Hurricane Hurricane Marketplace, 270 Progress Way Logan Fountain Place, 131 Prosperity Lane Morgantown Shoppers World, 250 Retail Circle Wisconsin Beloit Milwaukee Road Shopping Center, 2787 Milwaukee Road La Crosse Valley View Mall, 3800 State Road 16 Milwaukee Midtown Center, 4131 N. 56th St.
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Bags of ice-thwarting salt aren’t usually a hot item at Bates Ace Hardware in Atlanta, but store manager Lewis Pane sold all 275 he had in stock in one morning as residents braced for a major storm to deliver heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain on a broad section of the U.S. in coming days.Payne said he had 30 online orders for “ice melt” before 8 a.m. People sprinkle the salts on the ground before a storm to disrupt the formation of ice.“It’s impossible to get right now,” Payne said. “We have had to make special trips to our warehouse to pick up extra items because people need them.”The storm was expected to hit starting Friday, stretching from New Mexico to New England and across the Deep South. The damage could rival that of a major hurricane.Meteorologists say ice may linger on roads and sidewalks because temperatures will be slow to warm in many areas. Ice could also weigh down trees and power lines, triggering widespread outages.The city of Carmel, Indiana, canceled its Winter Games out of fear residents could get frostbite and hypothermia competing in ice trike relay and “human curling” in which people slide down a skating rink on inner tubes.College sports teams moved up or postponed games, and the Texas Rangers canceled their annual Fan Fest event.The coldest windchills may fall below -50 F (-46 C) across the Northern Plains with subzero wind chills reaching as far southeast as the Mid-Atlantic states and Southern Plains, the National Weather Service said.At the Atlanta hardware store, Wendy Chambers stopped by to pick up batteries and flashlights in case there is a power outage.“We’re gonna be prepared, aren’t we? We’re going to be able to read, do things, play games,” she said before heading to church choir with her granddaughter.Oklahoma truck driver Charles Daniel planned to load up as much freight as possible before the storm arrives in his area on Friday.“You’ve got to be very weather aware, and real smart about what you’re doing,” said Daniel, who delivers goods across western Oklahoma in an 18-wheel tractor-trailer.“You can’t back down into decline docks, you can’t go into neighborhoods or parking lots,” Daniel said. “I’m 40,000 pounds unloaded. One mistake can literally kill somebody, so you have to use your head.”He said truck drivers need to have a change of clothes, plenty of water and a couple of jackets on hand in case they get stuck because it would be a while before a tow truck could help them.In Arkansas, the Department of Transportation started treating some roads with brine on Tuesday. The salt helps prevent ice from forming. Over 10 inches of snow were expected in parts of the state.Rain was complicating efforts to pretreat roads with salt in Alabama on Wednesday because precipitation washes away the brine. The Alabama Department of Transportation encouraged people to stay off the roads if ice forms.“Any amount of ice is pretty dangerous, and certainly a quarter-inch could be very hazardous,” said Seth Burkett, a department spokesperson.Snow and icy conditions were forecast for Maryland beginning Saturday afternoon or evening, with peak effects Saturday night and into Sunday morning. The governor declared a state of preparedness to help authorities respond quickly.Governors in North Carolina and South Carolina declared states of emergency, making it easier for state and local agencies to coordinate and get help from groups like the National Guard. Associated Press writers Brian Witte in Annapolis, Maryland; Dylan Lovan in Louisville, Kentucky; Jamie Stengle in Dallas; Kimberly Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; and Rebecca Boone in Boise, Idaho, contributed to this report. Emilie Megnien and Sean Murphy, Associated Press
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A new neighborhood under construction near Sacramento, California, in the rolling foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, looks like a typical subdivision. But its one of the first developments designed at a neighborhood scale to withstand wildfires. Each house goes farther than Californias latest building requirements for high-fire-risk zones, from enclosed, ember-resistant eaves to dual-paned, tempered glass windows that can better withstand extreme heat in a fire. The design considers not just each house, but how homes interact, spacing buildings at least 10 feet apart and removing combustible features to prevent fire from spreading between them. Called Stone Canyon, it’s one of the states first Wildfire Prepared Neighborhoods, a standard developed by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), a research nonprofit funded by the insurance industry. [Photo: KB Home] Designing homes that withstand wildfires At a unique facility in North Carolina, the nonprofit recreates wildfiresfrom embers to wind speedand then uses controlled tests to see how houses perform. We build full-size structures and we can control the wind speed and direction,” says Roy Wright, president and CEO at IBHS. “We can control the ember flow and the cast that is coming in that direction. We put out and publish really interesting, wonky things about wildfire. But [with the new standards] we said, let’s just take the most important pieces of the science and make them really plain and usable for developers and homeowners.” [Video: KB Home] KB Home, the national developer behind the project, decided to tackle a new level of fire safety after learning about IBHSs research. At a building conference in 2024, the team watched one of the nonprofits demonstrations, which featured a house built to the standard building code next to one built to IBHSs standards. They simulated a wildfire event where embers were blowing against the two structures, says Steve Ruffner, president and regional general manager for KB Homes in Southern California. The home that was built to the old standards burned fairly quickly, within about half an hour. And the other home didn’t burn at all. At the time, KB Home had another development underway in a fire risk zone in Escondido, near San Diego. On the fly, we changed the design guidelines of our homes to accommodate the IBHS standards, says Ruffner. (The homes, which start at around $1,000,000 and around 2,000 square feet, are aimed at “step-up” buyers looking for an upgrade; in the development near Sacramento, they start in the high $700,000s.) [Photo: KB Homes] IBHS had already put out a new building standard for “wildfire prepared” homes in 2022. In 2024, after meeting with KB Homes, it sped up the development of a related standard at the scale of a neighborhood. To get the designation, homes need to include features like noncombustible gutters, a Class A fire-rated concrete tile roof, ember-resistant vents, six inches of vertical clearance at the base of exterior walls, noncombustible fence and gate materials, and a five to 30-foot “defensible zone” around the home where any vegetation is carefully spaced to avoid the spread of fire. Plants have to be drought-resistant California natives. The standard overlaps with California’s newest building code, but requires better, more resilient building materials for certain components. California’s code also doesn’t require at least 10 feet of space between buildings or the elimination of “connective fuel pathways” between buildings. [Photo: KB Homes] “Structure separation is the biggest indicator of wildfire progress that will take placethat density,” says Wright. “That’s why when you’re building new developments, you can incorporate this in. Because you want to make sure that within the adjacent home, if it is fully engulfed, that you’re giving the next structure a chance to survive.” Fires often spread through embers that can be blown long distances on windy days. In both the development near Sacramento and the one in Escondido, the homes are near open wild land that could easily burn; embers wouldn’t have to travel far. “We want to make sure that those homes can withstand those embers showers,” Wright says. “If embers are going to land on the property, it may ignite some bush or something that is away from the home on the parcel. But what’s closest to the structure is going to be able to withstand those embers showers. And if one of the structures has a really bad day and ignites, we slow the spread so that we’re not going to lose the whole neighborhood. We’re going to actually give the firefighters a chance to get in there and actually beat it down.” It also protects older homes nearby. “There are adjacent subdivisions or neighborhoods that were built 40 years ago,” he says. “And th kind of actions that these neighborhoods have put in place are actually going to have a protective effect for their neighbors, because when they can withstand the impact of wildfire, that means the fire doesn’t spread.” [Photo: KB Homes] From lab tests to proof of concept In the first project in Escondido, KB Home worked with the city to change some design guidelines (instead of Craftsman-style homes made from wood, they pivoted to ranch homes with cement-based siding or stucco). The city also required timber fencing that was treated for fire, but when IBHS explained that the coating quickly wears off in the sunmaking this type of fence flammablethey were able to switch to a metal fence that looks like wood. The switch actually helped save costs, Ruffner says. In total, all of the changes didn’t add significantly change the development’s bottom line, and there were some unexpected benefits. “We found out that tempered windows are much tougher, so we didn’t break as many windows during [construction], and we ended up saving a lot of money that way,” says Ruffner. [Photo: KB Homes] The first neighborhood in Escondido includes 64 homes, and an HOA agreement that requires homeowners to maintain gardens over time so fire can’t spread between plants or trees. The first homeowners have been carefully adhering to the plan. “They want to make sure they don’t break the rules because honestly, insurability in California is a big, big deal,” says Ruffner. “If you’re not insurable, you have to go into the public programs that are very, very expensive. And so at least they have a good chance here to negotiate with insurance companies.” The newest neighborhood near Sacramento will follow the same path. So far, only model homes are in place; KB Home builds each house to order as each home is sold. Each house will be evaluated by IBHS before the neighborhood gets the “Wildfire Prepared” designation, though it’s getting a provisional designation now. [Photo: KB Homes] Now that KB Home has shown that meeting the standard is financially viable, other developers also have projects underway. Around a dozen other projects are being designed to the standard now, Wright says, some with several hundred homes in a single development. Of course, the work can’t completely eliminate risk. It’s not possible to make a house completely fireproof, Wright says. But in a worst-case scenario, even if 20% of losses in a neighborhood could be avoided in a fire, that’s “absolutely phenomenal,” he says. “Every time one more structure doesn’t burn, that means that structure is not sending off its flame. It’s not sending off its embers,” he adds. “Every time we save a structure and it survives, we really narrow the path of how that fire will propagate into a neighborhood.”
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