Big Lots may have shuttered stores in New Jersey, but this discount retailer is looking to take its place. Rhode Island-based Ocean State Job Lot announced Wednesday that it would be taking over the leases of 15 Big Lots locations across the northeast.

Ocean State Job Lot is taking over more than a dozen former Big Lots locations, bringing the discount retail chain to new communities across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. Ocean State Job Lot has acquired 15 former Big Lots stores,

Nearly every Big Lots store has closed since the retailer filed for bankruptcy last year, but some are about to get a new life.