WPCNR MAIN STREET JOURNAL. July 1, 2008: Filene's Basement, an original City Center tenant that  opened for business in April, 2004, confirmed what Filene employees had been saying last week, that the City Center store would be closing August 31.

Pat Boudrot, a spokespersons for Filene's released a statement to WPCNR late Monday afternoon, saying "Filene's regrets that dut to material violations of the lease, Filene's will be closing August 31, 2008." Asked what specifically those material violations were, Ms. Boudrot declined.

Neither the owner of City Center, nor Filene's would confirm the rumors of the closing when asked about the closing by WPCNR Friday.