The following month, however, Big Lots announced that Variety Wholesalers—a retail company based in North Carolina—would acquire and operate hundreds of existing Big Lots stores.

A handful of the Triangle’s Big Lots stores are reopening, but several, including one in Durham, are being converted into new businesses.

New Filipino restaurant, a new escape room, Patriots Colony expansion and more business news in the Williamsburg area.

Warby Parker, Wawa, Shake Shack and Rakestraw’s are among the businesses that have opened or soon will open new locations across south-central Pennsylvania.