Department store giants like Macy’s and JCPenney have been shuttering stores left and right as a yearslong apocalypse for the one-time mall staples continues to claim victims.
But one Pennsyvania-based chain is managing to not just stay afloat. It’s in expansion mode.
Boscov’s, the nation’s largest family-owned department store chain, announced Friday that it plans to open its 51st store in The Mall at Greece Ridge outside Rochester, New York, sometime this fall. 
The 175K SF outpost will create 250 new jobs, according to a press release from the company based in Reading, where current CEO Jim Boscov’s grandfather Solomon founded it in 1914.
The department sector’s woes have often…