Downtown Retail Doings
There are two bits of news today about Downtown Brooklyn retail. First off, sources tell NY1 that the city is considering a number of bids for the use of part of the Municipal Building at 210 Joralemon, “including a high-end furniture store and an upscale supermarket.” (No Apple store rumors???) Second, The Daily News has…
There are two bits of news today about Downtown Brooklyn retail. First off, sources tell NY1 that the city is considering a number of bids for the use of part of the Municipal Building at 210 Joralemon, “including a high-end furniture store and an upscale supermarket.” (No Apple store rumors???) Second, The Daily News has an update on the market that’s launching at the Albee Square site on the Fulton Mall, which is going to to be called Dekalb Market and involve vendors selling their wares out of shipping containers. According to the story, the market will include a small farm so chefs who set up shop can incorporate what’s grown into what they’re selling. A beer garden and a performance space are also planned.
City Takes Bids To Add Retail to Municipal Building [NY1]
Market to Set Up Shop in Old Shipping Containers [Daily News]
apple already ruled out dumbo and willie-b dumbo space WAY too small was presented to apple you can be sure
trolley i agree with your comments, but again Mall doesn’t have the visibility and is not on the screen and MAC users are in borough park and bay ridge too not just downtown
the black folks that shop fulton are middle class i agree, but very few whites shop there, though that will change with time i hope and i am pushing for
sorry for telling the truth, if that is ‘racist and classist’ so be it i was on Mall today doesn’t matter as there is no space suitable for them there and Steve Jobs would NEVER put a store in a typical shopping location like that if he had alternative suburbs are irrelevant as comparison
i know the trends in DTB better than anyone actually….i am part of them and help create them
i just happen to know what is going on with apple and know real estate well anyway, enough talk, what happening is happening and talk won’t change it
love your moniker, how dodgers were named as you know
Blofeld, you are hung up on this w people thing which is both racist but also classist. Plenty of middle class people already shop there, and with all the development, plenty of BKLN yuppies will shop there. The only parts of BKLN that are MAC users are the areas surrounding Downtown, and Williamsburg, and betting long term on the downtown core recognizes pure demographics and trends. I wonder how successful you’ve been at recognizing those. I’m sure the people at Apple are better at it, and aren’t spilling secrets to you. Sorry player
House of D should be hotel….. keep bars in…. then we could have Sing Sing Night Club, Tombs Bar, Rikers Roof Top Bar, Attica Restaurant
There appears to be a sizable empty retail space at One Main street in DUMBO.
Crate and Barrel is, yes. Trolley, this is not ‘outside of Manhattan’ this is BKLYN, home of MAC users. they have no intention of doing a normal store here…. believe me
I am not down on fulton mall, i shop there for bargains and hip hop clothes for kids it is not for apple, already ruled out and too expensive and space not there end of story
VERY few w people shop there, very few not issue anyway, cost too much and landlords all wrong for apple
everyone thinks easy to find large spaces in bklyn for retail
the OPPPOSITE is the case
Rumor Apple and Crate and Barrel looking at some of the new retail on corner of Boerum Place and Atlantic. Huge space available and brand new.
This is great news. Anything to clean up Court Street from Joralemon down to State
Apple should have jumped on the retail space at the Brooklyn House of Detention…..would have been brilliant and given a whole new meaning to the term jailbroken!
Bloefeld, any Apple store outside of Manhattan is quite pedestrian. Outside of Manhattan they’re not statement stores, just retail enviornments. Why are you so down on Fulton? Great buildings, close to everything, and turning around. Plenty of people of all races shop there. I’m sure you speak to the real estate people at all the major national chains and they give you their take on Fulton. I bet you another 5-10 major chains come to that strip before the end of the next half dozen years.