Ulta Beauty, a cosmetics and skincare retailer often found in suburban shopping centers, will next year open a new location in a legacy intown center. The new store, measuring about 11,000 square feet, will open in Toco Hills shopping center in a large portion of what was most recently an Office Depot. The office supply store, which had been in the center about 15 years, closed in November.
Despite serious struggles in the retail industry, Ulta continues to be a bright spot. The company announced December 3 in its Third Quarter Fiscal 2020 results: net sales of $1.6 billion compared to $1.7 billion in the year-ago quarter. Earlier this year (pre COVID-19), Ulta opened a new store in Johns Creek Town Center in Suwanee/Johns Creek. The nearly 10,000 square foot store opened adjacent to PetSmart in previously exposed outdoor space that was once the garden area of a long-since-closed kmart store.
Elsewhere in Toco Hills, Bezoria, a locally based Mediterranean quick serve eatery, seems to have abandoned plans to open in the former The Local Pizzaiolo spot. The roughly 2,400 square foot space is marked as "available" on the site plan for the center, whereas it had previously indicated Bezoria was "coming soon."
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