Party supply store Party City is closing all of its stores, including one in Fort Collins.
CNN first reported that Party City’s CEO told employees in a corporate meeting that it would close all of its stores. Other outlets reported this week that it would file for bankruptcy for the second time in recent years.
Fort Collins has one store, at The Square shopping center, 3500 S. College Ave., sandwiched between Trader Joe’s and Sierra Trading Post.
When a Coloradoan reporter called the store to ask about the news report and the number of local employees, a store manager referred her to corporate sources.
The Fort Collins store had been located in the Front Range Village shopping center on East Harmony Road until 2022, when it moved to its current location.
There are more than a dozen Party City locations in Colorado, most of them in the Denver metro area. Locations are in: Fort Collins, Longmont, Westminster, Lakewood, Aurora, Denver, Centennial, Littleton and Colorado Springs.
Party City filed for bankruptcy in early 2023 and emerged from it in September of that year.