McCurdy's
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| Department Store | |
| Industry | retailing |
| Fate | merged into Kaufmann's |
| Predecessor | McCurdy and Norwell Co. |
| Successor |
Kaufmann's (1990–2006) Macy's (2006–present) The Bon-Ton |
| Founded | Rochester, New York, United States (1901) |
| Founder | John Cooke McCurdy |
| Defunct | 1994 |
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Key people
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Gilbert McCurdy |
| Products | clothing, merchandise, baked goods, |
| Subsidiaries | B. Forman Co. (1968-1994) |
McCurdy's (formally McCurdy and Company) was a Rochester, New York-based department store. Founded in 1901, the company was acquired by May Department Stores in 1994, but as a result of an antitrust settlement due to both McCurdy's and May's Kaufmann's stores being the predominant anchors in the area shopping malls, its stores were divested to The Bon-Ton Department store chain.
McCurdy's was started as McCurdy and Norwell Co. in 1901 by John Cooke McCurdy who came to Rochester by way of Philadelphia and Ireland. The store was located at the corner of Main and Elm streets. This location would later would form the basis of a mall at the location when Gilbert McCurdy alongside fellow department store owner Maurice Forman of B. Forman Co. helped found Rochester's Midtown Plaza, where its flagship store would be incorporated in and become the main anchor of the mall.
Other locations would later be in Pittsford, New York, Greece, New York in Long Ridge Mall and Northgate Plaza, Irondequoit, New York in Irondequoit mall, Henrietta, New York in The Marketplace Mall, Geneva, New York in Town and Country Plaza and Victor, New York in Eastview Mall. The Northgate store made McCurdy's the first Rochester department store to open in the suburbs when it opened in 1953.
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