The City issued two sign permits Tuesday for the Office Depot "store closing" at 9230 Arlington Expressway.
One of the banner signs will say the closing is June 8-July 8.
As reported, Office Depot is moving to a smaller store nearby at 9450 Arlington Expressway, where the City approved an awning Tuesday.
The Daily Record has reported that Office Depot plans to move within the Regency area of Arlington, leaving Regency Court for Regency Pointe.
The City previously approved building and sign permits for tenant remodeling for 8,078 square feet of space at 9450 Arlington Expressway in Regency Pointe, not far from the 26,000 square feet that Office Depot has been leasing at 9230 Arlington Expressway in Regency Court.
The Daily Record reported in December that Office Depot appears to be downsizing its Regency location from a big box to its smaller concept. The permit application shows a tenant remodeling project to the "2012 Prototype."
Office Depot, based in Boca Raton, has more than 1,100 stores in North America.
The NorthJersey.com news website reported last year the Office Depot chain was developing new-format stores that are one-fifth the size of its traditional big-box stores. It quoted company President Kevin Peters saying the big-box format "just doesn't work anymore."
The news site reported development of a 5,000-square-foot Office Depot in Hoboken, N.J., that stocked about half the number of products carried in the 26,000-square-foot stores. It said the company expected to downsize about 100 stores a year, or 10 percent of its store base.
"The 26,000-square-foot store just doesn't work anymore," Peters, Office Depot's president for North America, said during a tour of the Hoboken store. "They're too big. They're too hard to shop.''
The news site said Office Depot discovered it can shrink store sizes without slashing sales. "We're getting 90 percent of the sales in a fraction of the space," Peters said.
It reported Peters said all Office Depot stores will be downsized as existing leases expire.