announced on its website<\/a> it was closing 59 stores, including eight in Florida, though none of the closures are happening in the Miami area.<\/p>\n“We recently made the difficult decision to close select store locations. While this change wasn’t easy, our commitment to you hasn’t changed one bit \u2014 West Marine is open, stocked and ready to help with everything you need to get back on the water,” a message on the website read.<\/p>\n
The closures are happening at 23 states, with multiple stores closing in California, Maryland, Michigan and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The eight stores closing in Florida are in Port Charlotte, Bonita Springs, Venice, Winter Haven, Jacksonville, Palm Coast, Orlando and Fernandina Beach.<\/p>\n
The company is undergoing restructuring after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month.<\/p>\n
West Marine dates back over 50 years and has been headquartered in Fort Lauderdale since 2022. Their website says they operate over 230 stores in 38 states and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale-based boating and fishing retailer West Marine is closing dozens of stores as the company is going…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-309473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}