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this is crazy....
On Thanksgiving Day afternoon, November 24th, an explosion and building collapse happened next door at 1424 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Fortunately, no one was hurt because everyone was off on holiday, but the damage, which cannot be seen from the Wisconsin Ave. NW facade, was so extensive that DC authorities have evacuated and banned people from entering 1422, 1424, and 1426 Wisconsin Ave. NW buildings.
Therefore, we were unable to open on Black Friday for our Midnight Madness, and we are still closed throughout the weekend, as investigators and authorities work through this matter.
As soon as we find out when we can re-open, we will let you know, and we will put on the Black Friday Sale that everyone missed out on. However, we are not certain how long it will take.
We would like to thank all of our customers and employees, who have shown patience through this ordeal, and we would especially like to thank the hardworking members of the DC Fire Department, and DC Police Department.
We will be back soon!
http://news.majordc.com/2011/12/14/major-store-update-day-20/
It’s been 20 days since the building collapse next door at 1424 Wisconsin Ave. NW, and we have not had much progress in getting our building safe enough to operate with customers and employees. We definitely appreciate all the encouraging and kind e-mails, tweets, and messages from all of our customers, and we are trying to rally up everyone from the city government to local politicians to help us get to the bottom of this matter. For those that have been wondering why we had to close, or have seen the front of the store, and wondered how bad the devastation was, we are able to show you for the first time the magnitude of the collapse.
Our showroom is on the left of the collapsed building, and our storage/office was on the right of the building. So when the collapse happened, it affected our entire operation, and shut us down for an extended period of time.
With no fire escape on the store building, and half of our inventory lost in the rubble on the right, it’s been very tough 20 days for us at MAJOR.
We didn’t want our customers to think that we are not trying our hardest to get re-open, so we wanted everyone to understand the magnitude of the loss, and how devastating it is to know that some of the lost items include items that everyone was waiting on for our Black Friday launch and beyond.
But please believe that The Only Store That Matters will come back as soon as we are able, and we will bring the best from all over the world, right here to our home in the Nation’s Capital!
Thanks for being a part of the MAJOR family!
