OMG! Hibbing is getting a Peebles!
A what now?
For the last several years people in the Iron Range’s largest city of Hibbing have been anticipating the coming of a new retailer after the big Wal-Mart came in and precipitated the closure of our Kmart and Pamida while the local mall saw most of its tenants leave. We’ve seen some new strip malls go up, but no big stores. But one was coming, we heard. And it was huge!
Big Lots! We heard
Target! We heard.
Gander Mountain! We heard, and the menfolk rejoiced.
Well, yesterday the Irongate Plaza (that’s the mall) announced it had signed Peebles. The Hibbing Daily Tribune has the story. Peeples is a clothing/department store. Kind of like Old Navy but, you know, Peebles.
Discuss.
What? Peebles? It took me nearly four years of living in the Twin Ports to figure out what a Yonkers was, now I have to deal with Peebles? Never!
“A person born in Peebles is called a gutterbluid.”
I don’t see any ‘namebrand’ camouflage clothing at Peebles. I may be forced to continue shopping for my clothes at Custom Lettering and / or L&M Supply.
Yeah I was very excited when I read that in the paper. Ironically the first time I had ever heard of Peebles was from a friend on facebook the afternoon before the story came out! weird huh? (…you’ve got a great blog! I’ll have to suscribe to it on my RSS reader)