The Walgreens at 5151 W. Colfax Ave. will close next month. (BusinessDen file)
More specifics are in as Walgreens trims its footprint in Denver and around the country.
A Walgreens at the corner of Havana Street and Colfax Avenue in Aurora will cease operations on Nov. 13, according to the location’s phone system. A day later, the Walgreens at 300 S. Federal Blvd. in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood will close its doors.
The stores join another at the corner of Colfax and Sheridan Boulevard in closing next month.
Illinois-based Walgreens announced during an earnings call Tuesday morning that the company will close 1,200 stores, or about 14 percent. Some 500 stores will close within the next year, according to CEO Tim Wentworth, who cited an unsustainable business model and lack of consumer spending as reasons for the cutback.
The retailer didn’t publicize the affected locations.
“We are not posting a list externally. We don’t have any details to share on specific locations at this time,” Megan Boyd, a spokesperson for the company, said in an email.
Denverite and Denver7 first reported the Westwood and Aurora closures.
The 1,200-store figure appears to be an update on plans shared over the summer, when the company said 25 percent of stores would be shuttered.
At least two Walgreens stores in the region have closed in recent months. The phone number for the onetime store at 110 E. Mineral St. in Littleton, which sits on the corner of Broadway, now routes to a store in Centennial.
A former Walgreens property at 3080 S. Broadway in Englewood is also being marketed for sale or lease on LoopNet.
