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Carson's Clearance Center plans to close in Lansing next month, another notable loss to the once-thriving retail area around the River Oaks Center mall.

Parent company Bon-Ton Stores Inc. opened the 21,000-square-foot Carson's outlet store in 2013 at 16727 S. Torrence Avenue, in The Landings shopping center just south of the Little Calumet River and River Oaks. It opened shortly after the Carson's anchor department store closed in the regional mall in Calumet City.

Carson's has announced in an ad it would offer an extra 40 percent to 60 percent off of already discounted items at the clearance center for a going-out-of-business liquidation sale. An employee said the store was slated to close in mid to late January.

A manager declined to comment, and a company spokesman did not immediately return messages.

Carson's, which also has full department stores in Merrillville, Michigan City and Hammond's Woodmar neighborhood, sold apparel, accessories and home items at the clearance center in Lansing.

A nearby Sports Authority in Calumet City closed earlier this year after what was once the “nation’s preeminent full line sporting goods chain" went bankrupt, shuttering all of its locations nationally.