“The Americana at Brand” issues an apology to Armenian vendors
Three young Armenian entrepreneurs rented a cart last month at the Americana, a large shopping-restaurant-theater complex in Glendale, to sell T-shirts, hats, and other clothing items advertised on their shop1915.com website. On February 12, the opening day of their business, the three Armenians were unexpectedly told by Americana’s management to remove all pictures of protests. Even though there were no pictures of any protests on the cart, just posters of people wearing the T-shirts on sale, Chuldzhyan told “The California Courier” that she immediately took down the posters to avoid any conflict with Americana. “The Americana at Brand” issued an apology to Armenian cart vendors after the shopping center’s management chose to bar them from selling their merchandise, informs asbarez.com “We would like to apologize to our cart tenants, Tina Chuldzhyan, Alex Kodagolian and Armin Hariri, for the regrettable misunderstanding regarding their cart’s merchandise,” reads the statement of the trading center.
