STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Party City is putting all 695 of its recently shuttered locations up for auction – including dozens of stores in New York and New Jersey.

Going-out-of-business sales are ongoing at Party City's retail stores across the Garden State as the company winds down operations.

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.”

Party City Holdco Inc. announced on Dec. 21 that it will shut down operations and close its roughly 700 stores nationwide after nearly 40 years in business.

Dozens of Party City locations are going onto auction, according to a news release from A&G Real Estate Partners.

The Woodcliff Lake-based party store chain with hundreds of locations across the country is shutting down early this year.