Menlo Park Gymboree Closing, Company Announces

EDISON, NJ — The Gymboree store in the Menlo Park mall in Edison will be closing, the company announced Wednesday.

The Menlo Park Gymboree is one of seven Gymboree children's clothing stores across New Jersey that have been slated for closure. They full list is: Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, Menlo Park in Edison, The Shoppes at Riverside in Hackensack, The Shoppes at Hamilton in Hamilton (Mercer County), Hamilton Mall in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton (Atlantic County), Route 35 in Sea Girt and the Gymboree on Morris Turnpike in the Short Hills section of Millburn. This is part of 350 Gymboree stores across the country that will be shut down.

But in an added bonus for shoppers, there will be the closing sales in the company's affected Gymboree, Gymboree Outlet and Crazy 8 stores, the company said. The closing sales at affected stores are scheduled to begin next Tuesday, July 18. For those interested in these sales, updated information will be available on the company’s restructuring website at www.gymboreerestructuring.com. All the stores nationwide that will be closing can be found here: https://gymboreerestructuring....

In 2007, a horrific shooting-suicide took place inside the Menlo Park Gymboree: A 23-year-old man shot his ex-girlfriend, who was an employee at the store. He then turned the gun on himself, killing himself. The Gymboree employee survived the shooting. Read more here: Man shoots ex-girlfriend, then kills himself inside Menlo Park Mall

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