The Closed Sagamore Bridge Christmas Tree Shops? It's A Spirit Halloween Now

SAGAMORE, MA — When one — semi — holiday-themed store closes, another store opens. At least, that's the case on Cape Cod this year.

With the closing of Christmas Tree Shops in Massachusetts, there are now a few real estate opportunities for other shops to step into. At the Sagamore Bridge Christmas Tree Shops location, that opportunity will be seized by Spirit Halloween.

The Cape Cod Times reports that Turtle Rock LLC partner Gregory Bilezikian said Spirit Halloween is set to lease the property for the upcoming Halloween season. Turtle Rock LCC owns the property.

This, of course, should surprise no one, as Spirit Halloween is known to pop up for the season anywhere and everywhere, prompting a number of Internet memes along the way. (That thing that recently closed? It's a Spirit Halloween now.)

All 13 Christmas Tree Shops in the state will close by the end of the summer, and hundreds of employees will also lose their jobs as the retailer heads toward bankruptcy.

Remaining stores will close by Aug. 31, with seven having already done so by the publication of this story.

Christmas Tree Shops, owned by Handil Holdings LLC, filed for bankruptcy in May and initially planned to keep some of its stores open. The company reversed that decision before July 4, telling a bankruptcy judge that it would close all stores.

The modern incarnation of the chain began in the 1970s with a single store in Yarmouth. The chain was eventually acquired by now-bankrupt Bed, Bath and Beyond, but sold to Handil Holdings in 2020.