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Seattle's new City Target downtown is 3 storys and is more like a full line department store with mannequin's, and escalator's. Seattle still has the largest Nordstrom in the world and a Macy's downtown also. I Love having a midpriced option downtown.
I believe the Nordstrom opening in downtown Vancouver this Fall will be larger than the Seattle store though.
I believe the Nordstrom opening in downtown Vancouver this Fall will be larger than the Seattle store though.
The new store in Vancouver will be about half the size of the Seattle store. There only using part pf the building the basement is being leased out to other retailers and the upper floors are being convereted to office space.
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Seattle's new City Target downtown is 3 storys and is more like a full line department store with mannequin's, and escalator's. Seattle still has the largest Nordstrom in the world and a Macy's downtown also. I Love having a midpriced option downtown.
Weird our City Target is almost an exact replica of any other Target, just without some of the big items that are only practical for more suburban living.
Anyways Los Angeles has a Macy's downtown, but that is it. Ross just opened up in a former Woolworth's store on Broadway, not really a department store but a big step for Broadway's retail.
I remember when I was growing up that most cities had at least one large center city department store. I lived near Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA.....The former had two 6 level stores downtown. Wilkes-Barre also had two downtown department stores of 6 levels; but miraculously one large store is still doing business: Boscov's.
Scranton does have a downtown mall containing a department store but it's not the same as a free standing, large, multi-level store like Boscov's. I recall when Gimbel's had a store downtown(Scranton)....smaller but similar to New York City's: Macys.
Before the race to the suburbs and outlying malls...it seemed most cities had these stores. So I wonder how many are left??? Boscovs sold 1.1 Billion dollars of merchandise last year and still operates 40 stores in the Northeast; also it has the one downtown store in Wilkes-Barre and one in Binghampton, NY.
SO....Does your city still have a center city department store? .
Downtown Indianapolis has Circle Centre Mall which is anchored by a Cason Pirie Scott department store (formerly Parisian until it was bought out). It also used to have a Nordstrom anchor until that store moved north to be closer to the affluent suburbs.
Indianapolis did not "move" it's store to the northern suburbs. It's suburban store had been up and running for some time before the downtown store closed.
Indianapolis did not "move" it's store to the northern suburbs. It's suburban store had been up and running for some time before the downtown store closed.
Ok, if you want to be technical, yes Nordstrom on the northside was open for a couple years before they closed the location downtown. But considering most of their clientele is on the north side of Indianapolis, they opened a store closer to them and soon after closed down the one further away. It might as well have been moving the store. But either way, the one in downtown Indianapolis closed.
The new store in Vancouver will be about half the size of the Seattle store. There only using part pf the building the basement is being leased out to other retailers and the upper floors are being convereted to office space.
Yes and that Vancouver building's design is quite unremarkable.
The Vancouver Nordstrom is not a new building though. It's the retrofitting of an old building that has no windows above the ground floor. I've not seen a better example of a windowless building being retrofitted anywhere in the world.
The Vancouver Nordstrom is not a new building though. It's the retrofitting of an old building that has no windows above the ground floor. I've not seen a better example of a windowless building being retrofitted anywhere in the world.
And I'd take it over the SF Nordstrom any day:
Well, there's no accounting for good taste, no offense.
And the Vancouver store is about half the size of the SF store as well, fyi.
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