BANGOR – Bangor will soon see the opening of a new restaurant and department store.

Marshalls, a clothing retailer that specializes in “brand names for less,” will open its doors at the Airport Mall on Oct. 23 in the former Ames Department Store building.

Ninety Nine Restaurant & Bar will open in mid-November at the former location of Atlantic Seafood on Bangor Mall Boulevard. The restaurant, whose slogan is, “You’ll always come back for more,” is headquartered in Woburn, Mass.

“We’re a casual restaurant that offers huge portions of great tasting food at terrific prices,” executive vice president of marketing for Ninety Nine, Brad Schiff, said Monday. “We have a wide selection of menu items ranging from appetizers like our boneless buffalo wings to our most popular item, the broiled sirloin tips, to terrific tasting desserts and we have a full service bar.”

Marshalls falls under the corporate conglomerate The TJX Companies, Inc., which also includes T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and A.J. Wright. Marshalls’ home office is located in Framingham, Mass.

“We look forward to introducing Marshalls to the Bangor market and expect that our great selection of family fashions and home accents will have a tremendous appeal for value-conscious shoppers,” spokeswoman Jennifer DeBarge-Goonan said.

Marshalls’ is known across the country.

“With over 650 stores covering 42 states and Puerto Rico, Marshalls is one of the nation’s largest off-price family apparel and home fashions retailers,” the Marshalls’ Web site says. “At Marshalls, you’ll find a great selection of designer and brand name fashions for men, women and children, as well as giftware and domestics for the home at prices 20 to 60 percent below department stores, specialty stores and catalogs.”

The new store will employ about 60 people.

Dianne Grant, manager at the Airport Mall’s Mr. Paperback, said all the businesses at the mall would benefit from the space being occupied.

“Anything that moved in over there would help us out,” she said.

Ames left the mall about a year ago and the building has been vacant ever since. The former department store employed 50 people at its Union Street location, which first became occupied by the company in 1998, in the building formerly used by Rich’s.

The new Marshalls should draw even more people to Union Street, said Bangor’s Community and Economic Development director Rodney McKay.

“We’re very pleased with the improvements made on Union Street including the Eastern Maine Healthcare Mall and there have been substantial financial investments at the airport,” he said. “Unicel has built their corporate headquarters across from the Airport Mall and there has been a lot of economic development on Union Street, which is great for the city. It’s great news.”

The Ninety Nine Restaurant chain started in Boston in 1952 when founder Charles Doe opened at 99 State St.

“His wife Shirley presented him with a horseshoe for ‘good luck always’ and it was hung under the 99 State St. address,” the Web site states. Since then, the horseshoe and 99 have remained in the restaurant’s logo.

In 1993, Doe handed over the day-to-day operations of the restaurants to his three sons, Dana, Bill, and Chad. All three have worked in a variety of capacities within the restaurants since a young age, according to the Web site.

The Bangor location will become the sixth Ninety Nine Restaurant in Maine.

“It was just the next logical next step,” said Schiff. “We’ve been looking in Bangor for the last couple of years and we saw an opportunity and grabbed it.”

The restaurant will employ around 60 people.

“We have it scheduled [to open] for Nov. 11 right now,” Schiff said. “We have 85 restaurants located throughout New England and now New York. We’ll be opening our 86th in Williston, Vt., in the next couple of weeks and Bangor will be 87.”