The Container Store — a popular chain that specializes in storage and organizational tools, including closet systems — is set to open in May at the Tucson Mall.
The Texas-based chain, which is expected to have stores in 29 states this year, will hold its grand opening at Tucson Mall May 30-31, said Melanie Graham, a company spokeswoman.
“The Tucson store will be our first location in the area, and the store will be 21,000 square feet,” Graham said in an email interview Friday.
“We anticipate hiring between 40 to 50 full- and part-time employees,” she said.
The chain has a store in Scottsdale, and is set to open a store in Glendale Feb. 7 and in Phoenix in the fall, according to the retailer’s website.
“We are very excited to bring our beautiful collection of solutions to customers in Tucson who have been requesting a store for years,” said Graham. “We also aim to open our stores amongst other synergistic retailers that share the same target customer in order to provide a one-stop shopping destination.”
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Tucson Mall, 4500 N. Oracle Road, “provides great visibility and accessibility” Graham said in explaining the selection of the store’s location. The store will go into the space previously occupied by Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill, which closed in March.
The Container Store sells items for storage and organization for closets, kitchens, bathrooms, offices, garages and laundry spaces. It also offers free design services with the Elfa shelving system, according to its website.
The retailer, which sells more than 10,000 products, opened its first store in 1978, and now has 69 store locations nationwide, each averaging 25,000 square feet, Graham said.
The company has been named 15 years in a row to Fortune magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list, said Graham.
The Container Store said earlier this month that its third-quarter sales fell short as store traffic was weaker than expected, the Dallas Morning News reported. Same-store sales declined 3.5 percent from a year earlier in the company’s third quarter that ended Nov. 29.
But with the start of the company’s annual Elfa storage system sale, “traffic has turned positive,” chief executive Kip Tindell told analysts Jan. 8. Fourth-quarter same-store sales were up 2.7 percent, Tindell said.
For more information about products and services, go to www.containerstore.com online.