EMS is Taking a Hike Uptown Eastern Mountain Sports is climbing into a nearly 13,000 square foot duplex retail space in the Laureate condominium on the southeast corner of Broadway and West 76th Street. The store will open next fall at 2150 Broadway in 4,100 square feet at the street level and 8,700 square feet [...]
Home Court Sealing the deal, doing the ‘I do’ Off the market! Congratulations to Daniel Gohari, founder of the Xerxes Group real estate firm, and his new bride, Alexandra, whose wedding guests included Joseph Moinian, Morris Moinian, Kenny Dichter, Jeff Winick, Misha Haghani and Steven Cayre. For more, download the full article in PDF NY [...]
3 suitors for Fashion site The Poulakakos family is bringing its newest concept, Harry’s Italian, to 900 square feet in the concourse at 30 Rock, where it will open in time for Christmas, right across from chocolatier Jacques Torres. Sources said the asking rent was in the mid-$200s per foot. Darrell Rubens and Annie Shinn [...]
REI sets up camp in NY Rei, the 112-store retailer of outdoor gear and apparel, said it will open its first Big Apple store in the fall of 2011 in 39,000 square feet of space in the Puck Building in SoHo. The three-level store in the Kushner Companies will employ about 100 people. In an [...]
Argonaut Building Sold After closing stores a few years ago, contemporary furniture retailer Straight From the Crate is expanding again, leasing what is now its second Manhattan store at 295 Park Ave. South near E. 23 Street. The store will open in the fall. Its original store is at 1114 First Ave. at 61 Street. [...]
Eating Up NYC Food franchisers hunt for stores A bevy of food franchisers are taking advantage of lower retail leasing costs to ferret out local opportunities. The group of foodies includes Menchie’s healthy yogurts, Tio Juan’s Margaritas Mexican Restaurant & Watering Hole, a Scottish-inspired sports bar, Tilted Kilt, and Energy Kitchen’s healthy meal alternatives. [...]
March Madness Worldwide competitors jostle for retail space March Madness is setting in as optimism replaces recessionism. Retail brokers report a flurry of tours and activity as well as signed leases as all their work over the last few months is finally paying off. Kelly Gedinsky, associate broker with Winick Realty Group, is marketing the [...]
BUCKING THE TREND Meatpacking District continues its gentrification The Meatpacking District area is thriving with new stores, new deals and new developments. The area’s scruffiness continues to get polished as high-end storefronts continue to fill in along 14th Street, leaving the biggest complaint the difficulty in navigating the rough sidewalks and cobblestone streets in high [...]
The Empire State Building, undergoing a half-billion dollar capital improvements program, signed a new retail tenant: An AT&T Mobility store that will occupy 2,733 square feet. CB Richard Ellis’ Andrew Goldberg, Matthew Chmielecki and Eric Gelber repped the landlord, W&H Properties. Winick Realty’s Steven Baker repped the tenant. For more, download the full article in [...]
Upper West Siders can stop wondering what will move into the big corner retail space at 325 Columbus Ave. at 75th Street, home until last year to Express. It will soon be a Duane Reade. The pharmacy took about 9,000 square feet on three levels. CB Richard Ellis’ Andrew Goldberg, whose team represented the landlord, [...]








