Some franchisee owners of Party City locations plan to keep their stores operating, despite news of the company going out of business.

A high-impact winter storm is expected to affect the region from Saturday night through Monday morning, bringing all winter weather types, including heavy snow, significant freezing rain, and sleet, with widespread 6+ inch snowfall totals expected.

Leases for Baltimore-area Party City stores will go to auction next month as the troubled, 40-year-old retailer shuts down.

Fox owns the PartyWorks store on Caldwell Avenue in Visalia, as well as one in Clovis and two in Fresno, at River Park and on West Shaw. He considers the Party Works bankruptcy as “only to the better because we'll have less competition in our area.”

As closures begin, the 695 Party City leases across the United States are heading to auction through A&G Real Estate Partners.

Party City will be auctioning off the leases for all of its 695 stores in the US ahead of the retail company’s nationwide closure. In late December, the party store mainstay announced that it would be shuttering its doors after 40 years in the states due to high inflation that it couldn’t keep up with that drove customers elsewhere.