Avenue Clothing Store in Apple Valley to Close

Apple Valley's clothing store soon will shut its doors.

"Store closing" signs are up in the windows of the women's plus-size apparel store located along the north side of County Road 42 just west of Foliage Avenue.

The parent company of Avenue, a chain of about 420 stores, announced earlier this month that it would be keeping about 300 of its stores open and closing the rest, according to a story from the Wall Street Journal.

Versa Capital Management acquired Avenue last month, after the retailer had filed for bankruptcy, the WSJ reported.

Versa's Chief Investment Officer Paul Halpern told the WSJ that the store closings are part of a "fairly typical retail restructuring" in this situation.

A message from to an Avenue press contact asking when exactly the store will close has not yet been returned. A store manager said Thursday she didn't know when the store would close for good.