Los Angeles Apparel to open first NYC store at 480 – Business News
Dov Charney’s Los Angeles Apparel will launch its first New York store at KPG Funds’ 480 Broadway between Broome and Grand streets.
The 24,687 square-foot space, previously home to TopShop, stands within the coronary heart of Soho’s burgeoning retail scene.
All of Los Angeles Apparel’s “ethically driven” merchandise are manufactured in a south-central LA manufacturing unit.
Los Angeles Apparel will occupy TopShop’s former space at 480 Broadway. Google
KPG co-founder and CEO Greg Kraut stated, “This lease reflects everything we believe in – supporting mission-driven brands that contribute to the cultural and economic fabric of our cities.”
It’s additionally “a vote of confidence in the city’s retail market,” Kraut stated.
The repositioned 480 Broadway has practically 100,000 sq. toes of boutique workplace and retail space.
Dov Charney. Getty Images
Charney additionally based American Apparel with which he’s no longer related.
The homeowners of 1251 Sixth Ave. at West forty ninth Street, Mitsui Fudosan America, and managing agent Hines nonetheless have a big retail gap to fill following the departure of a 15,000 square-foot Chase department final 12 months.
But they’ll additionally probably have a hit on their fingers when jumbo Japanese restaurant Double Knot opens within the tower’s ground flooring later this 12 months.
1251 Avenue of the Americas
The meal we had at Double Knot’s new venue in Miami’s Wynwood district final week was sensational in each class, with dishes each acquainted and new to us.
Double Knot was launched in Philadelphia by chef Michael Schulson.
Its New York debut will add to Midtown Sixth Avenue’s rising stature as a culinary mecca for workplace tower- and hotel-based eateries together with STK Steak, Del Frisco’s, Avra, Jams, Oceana, Restaurant 53, and shortly to Eataly Café and Carnegie Deli.
