ShillitoRikes). The merger had been anticipated by ADG senior management for several years, with the Pogue's and L.S. Ayres logos each being modified for consistency between both chains, and Pogue's merchandise assortment being down-scaled throughout the early 1980s to the more mid-market range of L.S. Ayres. The corporate merger was accomplished with little fanfare and L.S. Ayres operated the former Pogue locations with minimal changes for an additional three years. The Fourth Street Market continued to be so popular in the former Pogue's locations that the concept was incorporated into larger L.S. Ayres stores and a private label line of wines and gourmet foods, "Fourth Street Market," developed. Larger L.S. Ayres stores would also incorporate Pogue's successful Center for the Executive Woman, which had been noteworthy enough to earn the cover of an ADG annual report of the period. With shopping habits changing and the age of the carriage trade department store slowly drawing to a close, ADG merged L.S. Ayres and Louisville's Stewart Dry Goods in 1985 in yet another effort to keep the regional chains profitable. In October 1986, ADG was itself acquired for US$2.2 billion by May Department Stores in the largest retail merger in the United States to that date. A few months later, long-time competitor John Shillito Company, by then trading as ShillitoRikes after a merger with its Dayton sister chain Rike Kuhmler Company, was merged into Columbus-based F. & R. Lazarus, and the iconic Shillito name also disappeared from Cincinnati's retail landscape. The last local Cincinnati department store would vanish a decade later when McAlpin's would be purchased by Arkansas-based Dillard's along with its Mercantile Stores sister divisions. Within months of their purchase of ADG, May Department Stores exited the Cincinnati market. The Kenwood Plaza, Tri-County Center, and Northgate Mall locations were sold to the J.C. Penney Company, the Florence Mall store to Hess Brothers, and the downtown store closed. The Samuel Hannaford-designed building on Fourth Street was demolished to make way for Tower Place Mall, which would fail and close in 2012 to be converted to a parking garage for the Netherland Plaza Hotel. The street level of the Carew Tower sections of the store was subdivided into various retail spaces and restaurants. On February 1, 2021, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Duke Energy had served the owners of Carew Tower, by then bleeding tenant revenues, with a 10-day termination of service notice