All Hays Clothing Stores Closing Next Year

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) -

"We were presented with an opportunity to sell our Jonesboro real estate that, after much prayer, we felt we could not pass up. We are taking this opportunity to have a retirement sale and at all three locations. We've had a great 35 years in business and feel blessed to go out on top by God's grace. We are thankful for our short but successful time in Jonesboro and would like to thank all of our loyal customers," Hays said. "After great success in Jonesboro we have still yet made the decision not to relocate but to retire and enjoy our families. We will close in March 2017."

"What I can say for certain is that they've looked at other spaces and what I can also say for certain is that we've had other people that have approached us about wanting to continue to operate that business," Brown said. "Whether the son does it, a local Jonesboro person does it, whoever to operate some sort of retail business like that."

"We've also, through Hay's owning that building, we had a project put together with a national brand restaurant group," Brown said. "It kind of got put on hold during this. Now that this is not on hold, the owner of the new technology company is going to move forward with at least building this one building for this national restaurant group."

"It is a niche market with me being a tuxedo shot but traffic is always a good thing," Southard said. "So when you lose a business that is right next door to you and it's such a big business, you know, it is a cause of concern. So we'll just have to see how it plays out."

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