{"id":144197,"date":"2026-01-22T04:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144197\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T04:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T04:53:06","slug":"national-retailer-to-close-orange-county-locations-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144197\/","title":{"rendered":"National Retailer To Close Orange County Locations: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A popular national clothing chain with more than 450 stores \u2014 including dozens of California locations \u2014 is planning to close after a quarter-century in business.<\/p>\n

From jewelry to bridal and in-season clothing, the mall-based boutique chain Francesca’s is liquidating its inventory, meaning shoppers can expect close-out sales to start soon.<\/p>\n

“We are liquidating our inventory and closing soon,\u201d a Francesca’s customer service representative told Women’s Wear Daily.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1999, Houston-based Francesca’s opened stores in 45 states, employing more than 3,400 people.<\/p>\n

But the news of the closing follows a 2020 bankruptcy filing. At the time, Francesca’s had about 700 stores<\/a> and announced 140 locations would close, USA Today reported.<\/p>\n

Francesca’s has not publicly confirmed the closing. However, its online store<\/a> is advertising sales of 20 percent off.<\/p>\n

The list of Francesca\u2019s stores in Orange County includes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pacific City: 21028 Pacific Coast Hwy E116, Huntington BeachIrvine Spectrum Center: 752 Spectrum Center Dr, IrvineThe Shops at Mission Viejo: 906 Shops At Mission Viejo #906-A, Mission Viejo <\/p>\n

Lauren Traut contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A popular national clothing chain with more than 450 stores \u2014 including dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-144197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}