Sand Mountain Reporter

Two new businesses are planning to open at the Boaz Plaza Outlet Center, bringing the number of tenants to 14.

Boaz Café and Hair Doodle Salon are expected to open the first week of August.

Bonnie Sims, manager of the outlet center for four years, said the center has remained near to full capacity during her tenure. Sims said Friday the center has one vacancy, but she expects to fill it soon with a new tenant.

The Boaz Plaza Outlet Center is located at 214 S. McClesky St. and owned by Northeast Enterprises, a company based in Atlanta.

Sims, who lives in Marshall County, works in an on-site office at the Visitor Center, ensuring the maintenance needs of the current tenants are met and showing available space to potential tenants. She also keeps a watchful eye out for skateboarders or speeding motorists in the parking lot. Her office number is 256-593-9255.

“We keep the center clean,” Sims said. “We furnish good, clean restrooms. There’s somebody here six days a week. I have a good relationship with every one of these managers.”

Gap Outlet and OshKosh B’Gosh are the most popular brands in the Boaz Plaza Outlet Center, but the center houses a number of shops selling various merchandise ranging from furniture to paint-your-own pottery to party wares.

Six of the 14 stores sell clothing and/or clothing accessories, including Gap Outlet and OshKosh B’Gosh. The other four are Easy Spirit, Kasper, L’eggs-Hanes-Bali-Playtex Factory Outlet and Van Heusen.

Country Kitchen Café offers home-styled cooked meals, and Kidz Time Jump Play Slide provides an indoor inflatables playground for children.

Groovy Gallery is a paint-your-own pottery studio that also hosts birthday parties, and Paper Factory is party supply central, offering the necessities for baby showers, birthday parties and weddings.

Kitchen Collection sells a variety of cooking and kitchen needs from the smallest gadgets to microwave and toaster ovens, and Furniture Outlet sells brand-name quality furniture.

Sims said the economic instability of the past two years has not affected the Boaz Plaza Outlet Center as much as other shopping centers “because of the stores we’ve got here. Their prices are so affordable.”

Sims said she has noticed an increasing fear of failure in people during the economic downturn.

“What I find is people are afraid they won’t make it,” Sims said. “But don’t be scared of anything. Try it.”

Sims praised officials at Boaz City Hall and the Boaz Area Chamber of Commerce.

“I am very pleased with the city and the chamber,” she said. “They’re doing all they know to do.”

Boaz Plaza Outlet Center

List of stores at 214 S. McClesky St.

• Boaz Café, opening first week of August

• Country Kitchen Café

• Easy Spirit

• Furniture Outlet

• Gap Outlet

• Groovy Gallery

• Hair Doodle Salon, opening first week of August

• Kasper

• Kidz Time Jump Play Slide

• Kitchen Collection

• L’eggs-Hanes-Bali-Playtex Factory Outlet

• OshKosh B’Gosh

• Paper Factory

• Van Heusen

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