Morton's, Other Big Chains Coming to Downtown
Yesterday the Daily News published a story about a mystery high-end steakhouse taking space in the ground floor of the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge (top photo), but the restaurant’s identity wasn’t a mystery for all that long. Morton’s signed a lease for a whopping 14,500 square feet of space at the hotel,…
Yesterday the Daily News published a story about a mystery high-end steakhouse taking space in the ground floor of the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge (top photo), but the restaurant’s identity wasn’t a mystery for all that long. Morton’s signed a lease for a whopping 14,500 square feet of space at the hotel, according to a press release published on CNN Money, and expects to open its 295-seat restaurant in late 2008. Doesn’t seem like the steakhouse could ever challenge Luger’s supremacy in Brooklyn (even after the Times demoted the old-school spot to two stars), but it’ll probably fit in just fine Downtown, which is increasingly drawing the national chain gang. Even more interesting (to us, anyway) was the news that Barneys, Apple, The Gap and Banana Republic have all expressed interest in taking space next door to the Marriott, in a city-owned building on Adams Street. We can only assume that the building in question is 345 Adams Street (bottom photo).
Luxury Shops for Downtown Brooklyn [NY Daily News] GMAP
Morton’s to Open its First Restaurant in Brooklyn [CNN Money]
Photo of the Marriott by Scott Bintner forProperty Shark.
If all the big stores (like Target in Atl Ctr, Daffy’s, McD, etc) come in and continue to pay minimum wage, you can bet for a lousy customer service. Starbucks has good benefits so it will be quality for the area. Banana Rep, Gap and Barney’s will be great, too, if and when they become a reality. Fulton Mall will morph from eyesore to a shopping strip pleasure. Let’s get it on.
Actually, it IS true that the Atlantic Center Target is full of employees who don’t give a damn about their jobs or their customers. Not all, but most. Worst customer service ever.
The lines are no picnic, either.
I can’t decide whether the shopping experience is so shitty there because it’s always insanely crowded or because most of the employees and shoppers are black/Hispanic.
no fuckhead, is it not true that the atlantic center target is full of useless employees and has mob-like lines? why is everyone so hung up on the race thing?
Look, the area is obviously gentrifying, and Brooklyn is, indeed, riDICulously under-retailed, and businesses like this are coming and will continue to come.
I’m just saying: Just because a developer tosses out the names of a few shops he’d like to have in his building–coincidentally, the very most coveted, sought-after, heavily-wooed retailers on the planet–does not at ALL mean they’re actually coming. It is obviously just a wish list.
Every developer goes through incredible contortions to attract hot, sexy brands to be their anchor tenants. That, friend, is the coin of the ever-lovin’ realm in commercial real estate. Convincing the extremely well-run real-estate departments of Starbucks, etc., that your location is where they ought to be is very difficult.
Of course, I dearly hope these stores really do come. You can’t buy anything in Brooklyn but t-shirts and messenger bags.
Guest 2:18, if you have any evidence to strengthen the story, I’d love to see it. I can walk to that Marriott, and if you give me a reason, I will.
Is it true that Black people and Puerto Rican’s are useless and mob-like???
No its not
not just black, but rican too. and who cares, is it not true??? and white people can be useless and mob-like, it just doesn’t happen in downtown brooklyn.
i think the point was why would an apple store want to subject themselves to that? their whole image is cool and clean, not ghetto and broken.
12:37 – why would anyone call you a racist – just because you refer to the Black people as “useless” and ‘mob-like’???
Not at all, don’t worry you covered up the racism so effectively by hiding your sentiment with codes like – the “demographics of fulton mall” and “a scene from Hurricane Katrina”
1:52 – actually Brooklyn was once seriously considered a potential site for the Capital so it would be historically appropriate – except your right before it could the NIMBY’s would be complaining about the traffic, the terrorist risks, the gentrification and whatever other red herrings they could think of.
Who’s busting on Casa Rosa? They have the best gnocchi I’ve had in a long time. Maybe it smells funny and the wine list isn’t very good but the food is great.