A party supplies seller with approximately 700 stores nationwide, including two in the Chattanooga area, is closing down.

Going-out-of-business sales are ongoing at Party City's retail stores across the Garden State as the company winds down operations.

After 40 years of providing balloons and party supplies for birthday and graduation celebrations along with Halloween costumes, Party City announced on Dec. 20 that it will be closing all of its stores by February 28, 2025.

Party City will be auctioning off the leases for all of its 695 stores in the US ahead of the retail company’s nationwide closure. In late December, the party store mainstay announced that it would be shuttering its doors after 40 years in the states due to high inflation that it couldn’t keep up with that drove customers elsewhere.

Party City is auctioning 21 store leases in North Carolina, including several in the greater Charlotte area, amid the retailer’s plans to close all of its nearly 700 locations after 40 years in business.

Calling each site a “sought-after retail location,” A&G noted in a press release that the bid deadline and auction would likely be in early February. “This is a large and di

The Woodcliff Lake-based party store chain with hundreds of locations across the country is shutting down early this year.

Dozens of Party City locations are going onto auction, according to a news release from A&G Real Estate Partners.