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Old 01-05-2011, 06:42 PM
 
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Old 04-19-2011, 07:54 PM
 
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Look at this:
5 Best Malls in Houston - Associated Content from Yahoo! - associatedcontent.com
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Old 04-19-2011, 11:24 PM
 
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I want to ask a question: Why does Houston have only one location of some high end stores including Juicy Couture, Nordstroms, Neiman Marcus, etc?
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Old 04-20-2011, 06:49 AM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Juicy is high end??

There used to be a Saks 5th Ave. and a Neimans at the Old Town and Country Mall before it got knocked down. The slow economy in the late 80's/early 90's, along with the Beltway development, didn't do those stores any favors.Saks shut down, Niemans held on until they knocked the mall down for CityCentre. However, I think if Niemans had worked with the CityCentre Development it would be doing very good business at this point.

You need A LOT of disposable income to keep those stores up. They need high dollar shopaholics to keep locations going, not the Upper-Middle Class Sally type who buys one nice high end purse every 2 years. Putting such stores in a central area with higher disposable incomes, that can be traveled to from other areas around the metro, makes more sense than sprinkling them about in places that are more middle to upper middle, with less disposable income.

As the city grows, you might see one open out somewhere, but it would have to be a good economy and the location would have to have a draw from other areas than just it's own burb.

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Old 04-20-2011, 07:23 AM
 
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I was thinking that The Woodlands should be Houston's next upscale shopping destination.
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Old 04-20-2011, 07:31 AM
 
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I was thinking that The Woodlands should be Houston's next upscale shopping destination.

It might be the next upscale area, but probably not a destination per say for a majority of the Houston.

While it's a wealthy burb, meaning that there is not a lot of low income, it's still primarily a middle class area.
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Old 04-20-2011, 07:33 AM
 
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That's interesting. So, what suburb or area of Houston can suburb an upscale mall or shopping village? This is interesting.
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Old 04-20-2011, 07:43 AM
 
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That's interesting. So, what suburb or area of Houston can suburb an upscale mall or shopping village? This is interesting.

Houston is such a spoke wheel of development. Burbs all the way around, that's why central locations for large upscale stores currently work better. It's easier to go in, than around.

I think the Towncenter areas in the burbs are "upscale" in theory, but they don't draw the upscale, larger department stores for the aforementioned reason. Boutique style stores do fairly well.
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Old 04-20-2011, 08:03 AM
 
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I was just wondering since Americans love the suburbs.
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Old 04-21-2011, 12:52 AM
 
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Galleria will always be the upscale and the most diverse mall in Houston.
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