The electronics store Best Buy which locates in Carolina Square It will close in February of this year.
“I can confirm that we made the decision not to renew the lease contract of our store in Plaza Carolina”Katie Huggins, Best Buy external communications specialist in the United States, confirmed today. “Our last day of work will be Saturday, February 29, 2020.”
The spokeswoman added that the chain will keep its two establishments in San Juan and Bayamón in operation. He said that about 35 full-time and other part-time employees work at the Carolina store. “With two other stores in the area, we are confident that we can keep many of the employees who want to stay with Best Buy,” he said in written statements.
Although it declined details about why Best Buy decided not to renew the lease, Local blogs such as Tecnético and Carolina 787 pointed out that, according to their sources, there were disagreements between the chain and the shopping center regarding the terms of the rental agreement.
For its part, a spokesman for Plaza Carolina said the company’s position is not to comment on this type of news, although he confirmed that the mall’s lease contracts are handled from the corporate offices of Simon Property Group, the corporation that owns the mall, in Indianapolis.
The new day He sent a request for information to Simon’s corporate offices, which has not yet been answered.
The Best Buy store in Plaza Carolina opened at the end of 2009 at a 45,000-foot store, according to reports The new day on that occasion. After the passage of Hurricane Maria in September 2017, the establishment was closed until April 2018, when it resumed operations.
Next February will not be the first closure of a Best Buy store, because in 2012 the chain closed the one located in the Las Catalinas Mall in Caguas, as part of the cost reduction strategies put into effect by the company. A year earlier he had stopped operating another establishment in the Los Colobos area in Carolina.
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