- July 5, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Mario’s Family Clothing Center, a family-owned small business in National City, typically has scores of cardboard boxes with new merchandise to unpack. This time, the boxes are being repacked.
After more than 50 years, the shop is closing its doors as the property owners prepare the site for a new business to open within the National City Plaza on Division Street and Euclid Avenue.
“It’s been a little difficult these past days,” said owner Mario DeAnda, son of the late Mario Marquez DeAnda, who founded the family business in 1968. He and his sons have been preparing the store for indefinite closure by early next week.
Mario’s Family Clothing has sold everything from shoes and accessories to school and work uniforms. Part of the site is expected to be transformed into a corridor for a new Planet Fitness scheduled to open in the fall at an adjacent unit, which was formerly the family-owned Wrigley’s Supermarket, said Susan Rounds with the…
