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Well aside from the three that were taken out in the original post: New York, Los Angeles, & Chicago. I have to say the Sunbelt cities hold this fortress off so well. Shopping & fashion that is extremely prevalent in the Sunbelt more so & as an inclusion I would add in Boston & Washington to it too.
I personally would say Miami & Las Vegas up next, then Bay Area & Dallas, afterwards in this group Boston, Houston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Washington, & San Diego. I'm actually surprised San Diego hasn't been mentioned at all yet.
I haven't been to Seattle but I would expect it to be in that group.
From my personal experience of where I've seen the largest concentration of high end stores & at more recurring frequency.
San diego is loosing there Saks at fashion Valley mall
You can't believe my surprise when the first time I came back from Japan, I was walking around SoHo and see Uniqlo.
I wouldn't consider it upscale, though. It's kind of H&M-level.
Uniqlo seems all the rage - rampant rumors now here of one opening on 16th and Chestnut in the vacated chapter 11 Daffys - Never been inside a Uniqlo and if its H&M like would rather have C21 than another H&M as a replacement for Daffys - the Other rumor is a Nordstrom Rack in this space which to me I would personally prefer, shoe pairing counter and all...
I'm not talking about J.Crew and Sephora. I'm talking about true high end shopping (Ermenegildo Zegna, Billy Reid, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, et al.)
The United States only has a handful of these districts, Palm Beach, Beverly Hills, Union Square, Uptown Houston, Buckhead, Upper East Side, Magnificent Mile, so on and so fourth.
So, my question is simply: Which ones are the best?
And to make it debate worthy, take away Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. Now, let the debate begin.
Of those not removed to me probably SF (Union Sq) and Boston (Newbury) area would be my personal choices with NYC and Chicago removed.
On high end malls there are so many
One piece of particularly good news to me. Philly an area that has the largest retail sq footage mall in the country (with no shortage of high end) has it's (KOP) Macy's about to be taken over in sales from the DT store. Of further significance is Macy's is likely to expand the retail space in the CC location adding three additional floors in an amazing old Dept Store on Market.
Also PREIT is finishing the pruchase of the complete Gallery and has just PR'ed the 300 million renovation to turn the urban mall inside out. And more rumors of a DT Nordstrom and Boscovs (East Coast Macys like Dept store). Philly has come a long way on retail since it hit rock bottom in probably 1985-90. Not Union Sq or Newbury though but getting much better.
Anyway, one of the recent additions is hip budget Japanese retailer Uniqlo. I think they also have a location(s) in NYC. Here's a pic of their SF pop-up store on Post. Their new store is on Powell.
There is a Uniqlo coming Center City Philadelphia as well.
Fourth Tier
Phoenix
San Diego
Philadelphia
Detroit
Orlando
IDK about this list... what are we looking at? Just city or are we looking at metro? If on the metro level Philadelphia would certainly be second tier. Have you heard of King of Prussia?
There is a Uniqlo coming Center City Philadelphia as well.
Well that's certainly conceivable because according to reports online they are planning to expand to 20-30 US stores but so far they have 3 stores in Manhattan, 1 in Paramus and 1 in San Francisco.
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