Fulton Attracting 'Manhattan-Type' Customers?
The Observer has a Q&A with Al Laboz—chairman of the Fulton Street Mall Association and one of the strip’s big property owners—in which Laboz talks about new businesses like H&M coming to the corridor. He has this to say about the demographics stores are looking to cater to: “Now that downtown Brooklyn is experiencing a…
The Observer has a Q&A with Al Laboz—chairman of the Fulton Street Mall Association and one of the strip’s big property owners—in which Laboz talks about new businesses like H&M coming to the corridor. He has this to say about the demographics stores are looking to cater to: “Now that downtown Brooklyn is experiencing a renaissance, with 5,000 new apartments being developed in a four-block radius, we’re getting a new type of highly educated … I’ll call them the Manhattan type of customer. And the challenge that we have on Fulton Street right now is really to keep our core local customer while also embracing the new customer that’s starting to come into Fulton Street.” Laboz also says “major, large-scale retailers” are eying 505 Fulton. Meanwhile, a reader sent in the photo above yesterday, which shows that work’s kicked off at the future home of the Shake Shack on the Fulton Mall—not a Laboz property, but certainly an example of one of the commercial corridor’s newcomers.
Albert Laboz Has a Mall in Brooklyn He’d Like to Sell You [NYO]
On a related note, the NY Post is reporting today that Aldo (the shoe store) is taking over the entire retail space at 466 Fulton.
Trolley was talking about this yesterday. I think and hope and believe you will see gradual change in racial composition of shoppers, so it becomes what we call ‘mixed’.
At the same time, i’d be interested to know of economic class of customers really much different than it was 40-50 years ago. I bet income levels very similar, just race has changed.
I personally go everywhere, from Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights, to Flatbush, Slope, Red Hook, Gowanus, Sunset, Willie, East Wilie, DTB, Dumbo. My fav is fort greene/clinton hill, cause it’s cool and mixed.
every week i wind up reading the stupid observer and it does nothing but raise my blood pressure through the roof and basically ruin my day. it’s everything that is filthy and vile and annoying about nyc all rolled up into one disgusting orange colored newspaper. oddly, it’s the color of a moonface after she goes to a few tanning sessions.
*ROB*
As long as the don’t walk arm in arm down the street blocking the normal flow like all the tourists on 6th Ave.
I don’t see any…. you know, Manhattan types in that photo.
Are the people in that photo “Manhattan-types?”
sounds pretty smelly though.
UGH! MOONFACES ARE WORSE THAN BEDBUGS! JUST AS ANNOYING AND WILL INFEST ANYTHING THEY CAN GET THEIR PRECIOUS DAINTY LITTLE CLAWS AROUND! AND IM NOT USING ANY CODE IN SAYING THAT BTW!
*ROB*
Essence Bar near me on Atlantic is neither “Manhattan-like” or “Brownstone brooklyn-like.”