This month has seen some serious new commitments, including a luxury department store from France downtown, restaurants around the market and the promise of a new development in New York’s second home, South Florida. Can 2024 come fast enough?
All About Apparel and Accessories
Continuing its reinvention and acceleration, storied French luxury department store, Printemps, announced the opening of a new store in New York, marking the brand’s first U.S. initiative. Printemps will open in the historic 50-story landmark building at One Wall Street (1 Wall Street). Expected to open in Spring 2024, the 54,365-square-foot store will feature two levels and a façade that measures 346 linear feet facing Broadway. The landmarked Red Room will be incorporated into what the announcement said will “pioneer a new format of experiential retail.”
Outline, a women’s boutique from Opening Ceremony and Totokaelo’s former women’s buyer Margaret Austin and childhood friends Julia Edelman and Hannah Rieke, debuted at 365 Atlantic Ave. in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
Just Gems
Blaine’s Jewelry Box is coming to Wall Towne Center in Manasquan, New Jersey, marking the area’s second location for the family-owned and operated jewelry store. The new lease brings the 100,000-square-foot, grocery-anchored shopping center to 100% occupancy, according to Levin Management Corporation (LMC), the property’s exclusive leasing and managing agent. Warby Parker continues to grow, opening its eighth store in Manhattan at 73 Fifth Ave.
Wining and Dining
Restaurant and bar Nobody Told Me will open its second location at Front & York, the condo development in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Its first site is at 951 Amsterdam Ave., Samanea New York, the retail complex in Westbury, and has signed leases with two new tenants to join its Restaurant Row located on the property’s north side facing Old Country Road. Ten-year leases have been signed with Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao, also known as Bao, a Michelin-recommended Shanghainese restaurant known for its signature soup dumplings, and Ichiddo Ramen, a nationwide specialist in Japanese noodle soup. Eatery Little Italy has signed for ground floor space at 437 Fifth Ave. Southdown Coffee will help caffeinate Long Island, taking space at the New Village at Patchogue mixed-use development.
For Our Furry Friends
At press time, Bond Vet, a female-operated veterinary surgery, opened on September 12 at 242 Broome St.
Back to Basics
William Macklowe Company and Senlac Ridge Partners — joint developers of a site at 120 Fifth Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, soon to be developed as a major residential and retail complex — have signed CVS to operate a pharmacy, joining Lidl, at the development. CVS will occupy the ground floor and lower level of one of the two mixed-use buildings planned for the site. Lidl will anchor the retail component of the other building. BP has opened its first Ampm convenience store in New York City, expanding the convenience chain from its West Coast roots. The store, located at 824 Allerton Ave. in the Bronx, is the first opening for the convenience brand on the East Coast.
The store features BP branding throughout the fuel experience and Ampm’s food menu, including a hot deli and grocery with fresh fruit and extensive dry goods. The entire customer-centric experience is modeled after Thorntons, the Kentucky-based fuel and convenience retailer that BP took full ownership of in 2021
That’s Entertainment
The “Squid Game” TV series has come to real life, with gaming company Gamebox creating a multiple-player experience at 81 Essex St. The company is also applying for a beer and wine license for the location.
Around the U.S.
Fontainebleau Development, a designer, builder, owner and operator of premier hospitality, commercial, retail and luxury properties, has revealed the first details for the new luxury retail experience to debut within Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the first luxury resort destination to be built on the Strip in 15 years. The project is scheduled to open in winter 2023. The 90,000-square-foot shopping district will feature approximately 35 luxury retail concepts across two levels.
Unlike traditional separate retail destinations, the Fontainebleau Las Vegas resort shopping district is conveniently connected and highly visible from the larger resort ecosystem, as every space will be designed with accessibility top of mind — neighboring, either adjacent or above, Fontainebleau’s 173,000-square-foot casino, dining experiences and other offerings.
Hermès will open its first store in Arizona at the Scottsdale Fashion Square sometime in 2024.
Jetset Pilates is in rapid expansion mode, growing its studio footprint throughout South Florida and statewide with its first-ever round of franchising underway. Jetset launched franchise applications in 2022 and attracted almost 200 inquiries in the initial 60 days. With new applications being submitted daily, the brand has already issued preliminary approval to five franchise applicants which will more than double its current footprint by early 2023.
Buy the Book
Bookstores live! McNally Jackson will take 7,000 square feet at 1 Rockefeller Plaza for its fifth location in the city.
Debra Hazel
Debra Hazel Communications
North Las Vegas, NV
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