Workers at the gigantic new Marshalls/HomeGoods store at Cross Keys Place this week were scurrying to set up display cases and stock them in time for the combined market opening April 6.
The 58,000-square-foot pair of retailers will stage a combined grand opening from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. as the Easter holiday weekend begins to unwind.
Marshalls sells off-price designer and brand apparel for women, men and children, beauty products, luggage and accessories of all kinds. HomeGoods offers discounted interior decor, furnishings, kitchen, dining and outdoor living items.
Marshalls/HomeGoods has more than 1,000 stores in the United States and Puerto Rico and about 60 in Canada.
The combined store occupies the former site of the Giant grocery store that moved in 2021 to the space originally occupied by K-Mart.
The K-Mart store was torn down in order to accommodate the construction of the 72,500-square-foot grocery store that features an in-store Starbucks and a Beer and Wine Store and Eatery.
The sprawling shopping center, tucked behind the intersection of Easton and Swamp roads in Plumstead Township, has undergone dramatic changes since it opened about 30 years ago, according to Christopher Chandor, developer and managing partner of the re-imagined center. “We’ve completely re-worked the common areas,” he said.
“I built this center,” said Chandor, who is plainly fascinated by the new Marshalls/HomeGoods combination store. It is relocating from the Barn Plaza Shopping Center on Easton Road in Doylestown Township, he said.
“This is such an improvement,” Chandor said as he described the side-by-side stores featuring separate entrances, two individual environments for fashion and home products and a common pass-through so customers can shop in both stores. “There are 14 cash registers up front,” Chandor said.
Fliers on a table in front of the soon-to-open Marshalls/HomeGoods stores described available jobs ranging from merchandise coordinator to cleaning associate. The combined stores hope to hire approximately 120 new full- and part-time employees.
A worker at Jersey Mike’s Subs a few stores away, asked if he expected more business as a result of the new stores, said, “Yes, the people who are setting it up have already been coming in.”
The combination store is not the only new addition to the thriving shopping center. Chandor said, “P.J. Whelihan’s Pub and Restaurant opened a couple weeks ago and is doing well.”
The pub is situated in an 8,500-square-foot free-standing building at the center. It serves families, happy hour patrons and especially sports fans who can watch games on extra large television screens.
Known for its pub fare as well as a huge selection of craft beers, it’s the chain’s first enterprise in Bucks County. It has about 20 restaurants in New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania, including the Lehigh Valley.
Five Below, the specialty discount store that caters to teens and tweens, also opened recently in a 10,000-square-foot store in the center. A Hallmark store is expected to open soon, according to Chandor.
Perkins Restaurant and Bakery continues to be a mainstay at the center. Other tenants of the 212,000-square-foot shopping center include True Value Hardware, CVS Pharmacy, Five Guys, Saladworks, Subway, Rita’s Water Ice and Yoga Six.
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