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A fact from Port Charlotte Town Center appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 April 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Maas Brothers store at Port Charlotte Town Center was never opened due to the bankruptcy of its parent company Allied Stores?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:24, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Maas Brothers store at Port Charlotte Town Center was never completed due to the bankruptcy of parent company, Allied Stores? Source: "A planned Maas Brothers store that began construction in 1989 has since been abandoned" (Hawk, Mary (September 12, 1991). "Montgomery Ward, Dillard's will open Charlotte stores". Punta Gorda/Charlotte News-Press. Retrieved March 26, 2020.)
"Maas Brothers' department store, under a deal closed yesterday in New York, becomes affiliated with Hahn Department Stores, Inc.. making the twenty-ninth big link in that chain, which operates from coast to coast." ((April 28, 1929). "Maas Bros. Merges With Hahn System". Tampa Sunday Tribune. Retrieved April 6, 2020.)
"Campeau’s holding company, Campeau Corp., unable to pay its huge debts, sought protection from creditors for its Federated Department Stores Inc. and Allied Stores Corp. under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code." {(January 15, 1990). "Campeau Files for Bankruptcy, Largest in U.S. Retail History". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 6, 2020.)

5x expanded by Pokemonprime (talk). Self-nominated at 22:51, 26 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Y Article is long enough (2207 characters), has been 5x expanded according to DYKCheck, 5x expansion started 26 March, nominated same day. Article is within policy and no copyvios
? Hook is short enough and interesting, but the Newspapers.com source only says that it was not completed, but doesn't mentioned Allied Stores. Do you have another source that mentions Allied Stores bankrupcy?
Y QPQ exempt, as 0 previous DYK noms
Pokemonprime Only issue with with cite for the hook, once this is resolved I am happy to pass this nomination. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:17, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added sources confirming both Maas Brother's acquisition by Hahn's (predecessor to Allied Stores) and the bankruptcy of Allied Stores. Hope they're good enough. Pokemonprime (talk) 19:01, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:54, 10 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]