Business & Tech

Blockbuster Store Closing

It's been a fixture on Second Street since the mid-1990s.

As the Blockbuster video rental chain goes through bankruptcy, its store on Belmont Shore’s Second Street is closing.

Blockbuster has been a fixture on Second Street since the mid-1990s and a clerk at the store (who asked not to be identified) said that he expects it to be open until the first week of April. The building it occupies was declared a historic landmark in 1994 by the Long Beach Cultural Heritage Commission. The Spanish Colonial Revival structure was built in 1929 and housed restaurants, then banks, until its adaptation into retail space in the mid-1990s.

Blockbuster is just the latest of Belmont Shore’s longtime retail stores to close or relocate this year. Others include 5001, Fingerprints and O’ My Sole. The Blockbuster chain has closed about 1,000 stores nationwide in the past few years, says the DailyFinance website.

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