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By RICHARD F. BELISLE | richardb@herald-mail.com | July 31, 2012
During a speech in April, Shepherd University President Suzanne Shipley spoke of a goal to establish four-year degree programs in education, business administration and nursing for part-time, nontraditional students in Martinsburg, W.Va., by the fall of 2013. Now, because of misfortunes befalling Mountain State University, Shepherd could open a Martinsburg satellite campus as early as January. Shepherd officials are taking a hard look at buying or leasing Mountain State University's classroom and administrative facility in the converted former Tanger Outlet mall building at 214 Viking Way, Shepherd University spokeswoman Valerie Owens said this week.
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By ERIN CUNNINGHAM | November 23, 2007
For most, it was only the first stop they would make. Convinced that the bargains and the experience would be worth it, thousands spent the first hours of Black Friday at Prime Outlets at Hagerstown. Most stores at the outlet mall opened at midnight, and were offering additional discounts to earlier shoppers. Many planned to spend several hours there before heading to area stores opening at 4 a.m. and later. "It's an adventure," said Carol Hamilton of Martinsburg, W.Va. "And it's fun. " This was the second year that Prime Outlets at Hagerstown opened at midnight on Black Friday.
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by ERIN CUNNINGHAM | June 26, 2006
HAGERSTOWN - Miss Washington County Carrie Shank gave her family a fashion show in April, modeling outfits that she might wear during the Miss Maryland competition this week. "We picked all of her outfits," said her mother, Sharon Shank. "We voted. " Carrie Shank was part of another fashion show Sunday, this time surrounded by 23 other women at Prime Outlets Hagerstown. The contestants wore clothes from the outlet mall. "I get to model L.L. Bean," said Shank, 22, who lives outside of Boonsboro.
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by SCOTT BUTKI | August 20, 2003
scottb@herald-mail.com A consultant hired by the City of Hagerstown to analyze the downtown commercial district and recommend strategies for improvements made suggestions to the City Council on Tuesday, including finding ways to get Prime Outlets customers to check out downtown businesses. Chris Johansen, president of Market Knowledge Inc., a Wilmington, Del., marketing firm, is being paid up to $10,000 in Community Development Block Grant money for his work, which resulted in an oral report he gave at Tuesday's meeting and a written report, city officials said.
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May 4, 2001
Shepherd hopeful to getting funds for branch campus By BOB PARTLOW / Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Officials at Shepherd College are cautiously confident they will receive $200,000 from the West Virginia Legislature to help move the community and technical college to the vacant Blue Ridge Outlet Center. "I think there was a concern about the budget and what it would do," about a month ago, said Peter Checkovich, provost of the community college.
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By KERRY LYNN FRALEY | April 2, 2000
Cindi and Dennis Kelly drove from their Hanover, Pa., home to Prime Outlets at Hagerstown Sunday for one reason - to exchange a bracket for a stereo they'd bought from one of the outlet mall's stores. cont. from front page But once they arrived and saw the new third phase and stand-alone home furnishings store, they decided to stick around and check them out. "They've added some good stores," said Cindi Kelly, 51, who said she spent $100 in the new Geoffrey Beene store and was eying the yet-to-open Banana Republic store for their college-age daughter.
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December 30, 1999
Some predictions for the millennium and beyond: It's 2005, five years after the turn of the century, and the parking area of Hagerstown's old Municipal Stadium is now a towing company's impound lot, surrounded by an eight-foot chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. After the Suns moved to Aberdeen, the stadium lot was used briefly as a point from which to shuttle people to and from downtown. But then the city cut a deal with an enterprising shopping center owner on Eastern Boulevard to do the same thing in exchange for some zoning concessions, and the stadium lot was excess baggage.
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August 12, 1999
By LAURA ERNDE / Staff Writer photo: RICHARD T. MEAGHER / staff photographer Prime Retail Inc. is selling three factory outlet malls, including Prime Outlets at Hagerstown, to raise capital for more retail centers, the company said Thursday. [cont. from front page ] Prime Retail, a partner in the $274 million purchase, will retain control of the outlet centers. The outlet center's name and management will stay the same, said Prime Retail spokeswoman Deboroah Radman.
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By SCOTT BUTKI | June 9, 1999
In addition to a plan to add space for 25 new stores, Prime Outlets at Hagerstown wants to build a 64,000-square-foot building that will house a single large store, a company executive told the Washington County Commissioners Tuesday. [cont. from front page ] Plans for the building will be submitted to the county within two weeks, said Brian Downie, vice president of development of Prime Retail, the center's Baltimore-based owner. The company would not say what store will go in the building, which will be on the east side of the outlet mall near The Gap. There currently are about 80 stores at the outlet mall.
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By DAVE McMILLION, Charles Town | April 1, 1999
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - There have been discussions about opening a Shepherd College branch in Martinsburg to better serve the large number of Shepherd students here, officials said Thursday. Many of the approximately 4,000 students who attend Shepherd are from Berkeley County, and it would be more convenient for them to have a local branch than having to commute to Shepherdstown, state and Shepherd officials said. "I think it makes a whole lot of sense. That's sort of a population center," said Pete Checkovich, provost of the Community and Technical College at Shepherd.