The Closer: Flips and splits of New York’s real estate community Home Goods announced its first Manhattan store at Columbus Square, the rental and retail development at 98th St. on the upper West Side. The home discount store just leased 26,000 square feet of total space. Winick Realty announced the deal. The store should open [...]
Faded strip plots comeback; Steinway St. stymied by empty storefronts On one side of Victoria’s Secret, there’s an empty storefront where a men’s clothing shop used to be. A Japanese restaurant, now shuttered, is on the other side. For Rent signs are more common than street lights. Despite a building boom across much of the [...]
Amsterdam Ave. reinvented as shopping hub Once dominated by small shops, bodegas and frat-boy bars, Amsterdam Ave. on the Upper West Side is quietly becoming a hot spot for retailers. While it still lags the bigger, bolder shopping strips along Broadway and Columbus, Amsterdam is gaining appeal for its relatively reasonable rents and access to [...]
Deep discounters draw busloads of shoppers to Jamaica Sonia Kahuratieery boarded a bus in suburban Washington around 5 a.m. so she could devote her Saturday to shopping – in Jamaica, Queens. It might sound crazy, but the 500-mile round trip journey isn’t uncommon for fans of the retail corridor stretching along Jamaica Ave. from Sutphin [...]






ICSC Spring 2011 Showcase Magazine