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[pdxstreetcar]

Chains look at Downtown Crossing
Home Depot, Kohl's, Jordan's ponder move as Filene's disappears
By Jenn Abelson, Globe Staff  |  July 30, 2005

Home Depot Inc., Kohl's Corp., and Jordan's Furniture have expressed interest in coming to Downtown Crossing after Federated Department Stores vacates a massive building in that location next year, according to an official involved with the talks.

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Edited by Cotuit, 01 August 2005 - 07:30 AM.

[TheBostonian]

I'd like to see Jordan's Furniture take the spot since it is a fun, local store.  But DT seems like a terrible place to load a piece of furniture into a car.

[Recchia]

TheBostonian, on Jul 31 2005, 10:18 PM, said:

I'd like to see Jordan's Furniture take the spot since it is a fun, local store.  But DT seems like a terrible place to load a piece of furniture into a car.

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Ha, agreed, they'd have to have a nice delivery service.  

I like the idea of a multi-level Home Depot with the garden section on the roof.

[Cotuit]

Urban people need furniture, plenty of companies operate urban furniture stores.

[BostonGal]

I just heard 2 days ago that Target is still a contender for this spot.
Granted, I do love my Target, but I don't think that will help the situation in Dtn Xing...

[ezcheese]

i walked around downtown crossing for the first time last week. i really like the area. it was fun walking around and seeing all the activity on the street. kind of reminded me of paris.

[BostonFaker]

ezcheese, Boston thanks for that nice comparison.

Target would be great!  DX should be where the middle class shops, and not Copley and Newbury.

[Cotuit]

BostonFaker, on Aug 3 2005, 10:54 PM, said:

Target would be great!  DX should be where the middle class shops, and not Copley and Newbury.

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Exactly, Taget fits right in with TJMaxx and H&M and frankly, Macy's which are already there. Copley Mall, The Pru, and Newbury are all highend, and Quincy Market covers that sort of mall store need (if theres a need). Downtown Crossing should be a place for city residents to go to buy things they need.

[StevenRocks]

I've been to the urban Home Depot in New York on 23rd Street.  Something like that would work in DX I'm sure.  Target too.

[pdxstreetcar]

I could kind of see Nordstrom's opening there eventhough Nordstrom is more high end but rather that this vacancy is a rare opportunity for them to get into a central Boston location.  I doubt they would have the opportunity to open in Prudential or Back Bay since there arent too many places where a store could open and its rare that malls add department stores since the other existing dept stores are very hostile to new dept stores being added.

[Cotuit]

There's a mall proposal out near the Convention Center in the Seaport, I think Nordstrom would be a good fit out there. It's not Downtown Boston, but the Convention Center alone will provide good traffic.

[BostonFaker]

I don't understand how we need, and could support, another mall out on the Seaport.

[youbetternot]

BostonFaker, on Aug 4 2005, 08:22 AM, said:

I don't understand how we need, and could support, another mall out on the Seaport.

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Not to mention, how or why anyone would ever want one.

[pdxstreetcar]

Does anyone know which downtown crossing store will close, the Filene's or the Macy's?

[Cotuit]

pdxstreetcar, on Oct 30 2005, 11:43 AM, said:

Does anyone know which downtown crossing store will close, the Filene's or the Macy's?

I think the Macy's. The Filene's store is a much better looking location and a much better choice for a flagship, the Macy's really needs to be gutted.

[pdxstreetcar]

^
thats what i was hoping, plus it seems the macys location would convert better to urban big box with its fewer yet larger floors

[Cotuit]

pdxstreetcar, on Oct 30 2005, 12:23 PM, said:

thats what i was hoping, plus it seems the macys location would convert better to urban big box with its fewer yet larger floors

Exactly, the weird thing with the Filene's location though is that Filene's Basement connects directly to Filene's (soon to be Macy's), but Filene's and Filene's Basement have been seperate companies for a long time now. The other issue, is Macy's has the Macy's Cellar at it's current location, they'd have to evict Filene's Basement to move the Cellar across the street. I think they'd be more popular if they set fire to Old Ironsides than if they tried to evict Filene's Basement.

[tocoto]

From the Globe:

Filenes store will close and the new owners will sell the building.  Macys will stay in its current building, the old Jordan Marsh store.

Where Filenes Basement will go is still unknown.  Nordstrums or another retailer could come into Filenes old building but Nordsrum supposedly has commited to the core block in the seaport.  Withn 5 years there will be a lot of people living and working in the area, plus lots of conventioneers and cruise ship traffic.  The core block has a high rise hotel and residential component in addition to the mall.

[Cotuit]

tocoto, on Oct 30 2005, 02:24 PM, said:

Filenes store will close and the new owners will sell the building.  Macys will stay in its current building, the old Jordan Marsh store.

Hmm, I guess a crap store likes to stay in it's crap location. I read something recently about a group of Americans trying to by Hudson's Bay Company, it'd be cool to get one of those in the Filene's spot. Though that's all speculation at this point, and there's no word if they'd bring The Bay stores to the states, it could end up being blocked since Canadians are up in arms about it. We need some new retail blood though, soon there's only going to be one place to shop.

[pdxstreetcar]

thats really sad about losing a dept store in the filene's building, that was a much better building


I read something recently about a group of Americans trying to by Hudson's Bay Company
oh please no, theyll ruin it, HBC is the nicest full service dept store chain in north america.

Edited by pdxstreetcar, 30 October 2005 - 02:42 PM.