Tampa Bay Newspapers, January 2010 Local man opens kiosk at Tyrone Mall Tyrone Center Mall has just become a little more convenient for shoppers and mall employees with the opening of the StreetCorner kiosk that sells items such as cough drops, aspirin and chips. Franchise owner Vincent Bruno of Pinellas Park opened the kiosk after […]
Street Corner Opens Three New Mall Stores
Convenience Store News, January 2010 Street Corner Opens Three New Mall Stores Street Corner, which aims to bring roadside convenience to the nation’s shopping malls, opened three new franchise locations in December. The new stores — two of which are in-line locations and the other a kiosk — bring the chain’s total count to 49 […]
Here, There and..
NACS, March 2006 Here, There and.. Convenience stores in nontraditional locations help retailers keep up with today’s consumers while tapping into a larger customer base. Since the industry’s founding in 1927, convenience stores have focused on locations where traffic is heavy, particularly with respect to automobile traffic. This focus helped spur the industry to dominate […]
Cornering business at malls nationwide
Topeka Capital Journal, January 2005 Cornering business at malls nationwide A mall-based convenience store company that began in Topeka is on a mission to grow up to 40 percent this year as it extends itself to malls across the United States. Read full article:https://web.archive.org/web/20061118035744/https://www.streetcorner.com/media/Article1a.pdf […]
CS News Online, September 2004
CS News Online, September 2004 The local mall is no longer just a hangout for teens looking for a place to see and be seen. Malls today are bustling infrastructures of commerce, catering to young and old and every demographic in between. And like every other retail outlet in the country, that means convenience is […]
Street Corner enters uncharted c-store territory: The mall
Shopping Centers Today, September 2004 Street Corner enters uncharted c-store territory: The mall For the most part, convenience stores keep out of malls. But Street Corner doesn’t shy away. On the contrary, malls are just about the only places where this Topeka, Kan.-based convenience chain can be found so far.To date, 46 U.S. shopping centers, […]
Local partners fill a popular niche in malls
Poughkeepsie Journal, April 2001 Local partners fill a popular niche in malls Fourteen years ago, Dan McCabe and Peter LaColla formed an unlikely partnership. McCabe, a 30-year-old attorney lawyer with a long family history in the legal profession, and LaColla, a 20-year-old hot dog and food vendor, who kept running in to legal problems when […]
Down on the Corner
Convenience Store News, October 2000 Down on the CornerStreet Corner News took the best elements of a convenience store and put them in your local shopping mall Twelve years ago, a former street vendor and his lawyer introduced a new concept to the convenience store industry–a retail operation with the familiar look of the old […]
Success Story
The Capital Journal, March 1996 Success StoryFormer street vendor hopes to keep adding chapters, for himself and franchisees. Peter LaColla is the embodiment of the American dream. Ten years ago he was selling hot dogs on a Poughkeepsie, N.Y. street corner. Today he’s running a Topeka-based company that operates a chain of convenience stores in […]
A corner of New York to be in Topeka
The Topeka Capital Journal, 1988 A corner of New York to be in Topeka It conjures up images of a New York City street corner: a hot dog and pretzel vendor, taxi cab, and bright street scenes of tall buildings and people working at their trades. Read full article:https://web.archive.org/web/20061118035635/https://www.streetcorner.com/media/Article7.pdf […]