Another H&M Store Opening! Could OKC be next?

[progressiveboy]

Saw this in the DMN. I love this store! Cool great finds and buys galore! Would OKC embrace this type of store?








http://www.dallasnews.com/business/r...n-mesquite.ece

[Thunder]

If they are smart, they will open one at Crossroads Mall.

[rcjunkie]

If they are smart, they will open one at Crossroads Mall.

Why would they open in a mall that's on it's death bed

[Larry OKC]

hard to say since I have no idea what H&M is....the people I asked, don't have a clue either.

[onthestrip]

Of course it would be embraced but I dont see it happening. Maybe if Classen Curve had a better layout. Best bet is some space opening up in Penn Square. However I think this is another retailer that we can file in the "maybe in 5 years" category.

[Architect2010]

Well that's not surprising to me. Us Oklahomans aren't the most stylish beings on earth... SADLY. Some of us do well though. H&M's provide good style for incredibly cheap prices. And I mean cheap for style. Shop at one of those and when you come back to Penn Square, you'll be pissed at the sad monopoly Oklahoma City calls clothing.

I'd bet money H&M would make a killing off OKC minus a Dallas store. Not everyone here wears raw denim jeans and a tucked in shirt. MAJOR GAG.

[progressiveboy]

hard to say since I have no idea what H&M is....the people I asked, don't have a clue either.

It is a European retail store based in Sweden who has incredibly priced fashion. The nice part about it is they are constantly rotating their merchandise so they don't keep anything on their shelves for very long. I would say they really keep up on trends and fashions but at incredible prices! It's become quite popular in America along the likes of another Swedish retailer "IKEA".

[cameron_405]

It is a European retail store based in Sweden who has incredibly priced fashion. The nice part about it is they are constantly rotating their merchandise so they don't keep anything on their shelves for very long. I would say they really keep up on trends and fashions but at incredible prices! It's become quite popular in America along the likes of another Swedish retailer "IKEA".

...and, compared to the likes of Urban Outfitters, what do you reckon? I've visited an UO in KC and left with way more 'vintage wear' than one should have, but I just had to.

[betts]

Forever 21 isn't THAT different ftom H&M. I suspect we'll need to have our Urban Outfitters store open before H&M would give us a look.

[soonerguru]

If they are smart, they will open one at Crossroads Mall.

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[soonerguru]

Of course it would be embraced but I dont see it happening. Maybe if Classen Curve had a better layout. Best bet is some space opening up in Penn Square. However I think this is another retailer that we can file in the "maybe in 5 years" category.

Classen Curve is already dead and buried. It will NOT be the locus of hip urbane retailers. It WILL be the locus of stuffy, relocated from elsewhere Nichols Hills retailers that close at 6 p.m.

I hate to say it, but Classen Curve is a colossal failure. Imagine: Utica Square, The Plaza in Kansas City -- and Classen Curve? Wow, what a disappointment this architectural abortion has become.

Without Republic, this place would be even more depressing and empty. Fortunately, Republic gives the people who thrive on remarking to strangers, "Hey, I work for Chesapeake!" an upscale, comfortably edgy place to hang.

[soonerguru]

...and, compared to the likes of Urban Outfitters, what do you reckon? I've visited an UO in KC and left with way more 'vintage wear' than one should have, but I just had to.

I can honestly admit I don't "get" Urban Outfitters. I simply don't understand why people would pay full retail rate for clothing you can buy at thrift stores (which is actually more authentic).

H&M, however, is fashion forward and very affordably priced. It is a far better version of the GAP (anyone ever buy clothes at the GAP and then bring them home, realizing far too late how terrible you look in them?).

[Thunder]

People giving praise to this mysterious company on being extremely affordable and fashionable. So, the perfect location is one of the anchor spaces at Crossroads Mall. If they just move into there, people flock to it, then they are highly likely to shop at the other businesses within the mall. Then we will see more anchors opening. All it take is that one wise company. The bottom line.....Just Do It.

[Larry OKC]

It is a European retail store based in Sweden who has incredibly priced fashion. The nice part about it is they are constantly rotating their merchandise so they don't keep anything on their shelves for very long. I would say they really keep up on trends and fashions but at incredible prices! It's become quite popular in America along the likes of another Swedish retailer "IKEA".

Thanks for the info. Probably not my thing but if you are into wearing the latest trendy fashion (that will most likely be out of fashion by the time you get it home), then it makes since to by it as inexpensively as you can. And so you still have money to go back next week and pick up the next thing they just got in. Don't see why it wouldn't do well here. Okie's do seem to be value for the money. I know I am.

[mrktguy29]

I have been to the H&M in Las Vegas. I believe the closest to OKC is St. Louis. OKC will not see one for years if ever. I don't even think Denver has one. If anything I see us getting an UO, an American Apparel and possibly a Armani Exchange. I have personally emailed UP and AX about putting a location in OKC. Offered some possible locations etc.

[Spartan]

I did some major H&M shopping before I left Sweden. Even Swedes wear the stuff, and that is saying something about style. I don't think us Okies are as bad as architect says we are about dressing, but H&M is after UO I think, but I don't think the two are comparable. Everything at UO is majorly overpriced cheap knock offs of vintage, whereas everything at H&M has so far lasted me and I don't feel embarrassed when people find out it came from there. H&M also does a lot of respectable clothes too, I have some formal things from there too.

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Yes. Post of the day.

[Thunder]

I now understand what your username refers to: that uber-vicious strain of street crack you smoke multiple times daily. Where can I get a hold of one of those Thunder rocks?

Interesting how you resort to personal attack when Pete and Triple M clearly announced for this kind of behavior not to be tolerated on here. So, enlighten us.... What are you angry at/about today? Maybe its the extreme heat?

[Spartan]

Thunder, it was just a funny joking remark. I laugh along at these kinds of jokes about me all the time.

[metro]

Classen Curve is already dead and buried. It will NOT be the locus of hip urbane retailers. It WILL be the locus of stuffy, relocated from elsewhere Nichols Hills retailers that close at 6 p.m.

I hate to say it, but Classen Curve is a colossal failure. Imagine: Utica Square, The Plaza in Kansas City -- and Classen Curve? Wow, what a disappointment this architectural abortion has become.

Without Republic, this place would be even more depressing and empty. Fortunately, Republic gives the people who thrive on remarking to strangers, "Hey, I work for Chesapeake!" an upscale, comfortably edgy place to hang.

You do realize they are getting Whole Foods, Anthropologie and other yet to be announced desired retailers don't you?

[metro]

I'd love an H&M, and es OKC could support one.

[soonerliberal]

H&M would be perfect especially considering what many Oklahomans like to pay for clothing. Twenty bucks can buy you at least one of number of different stylish shirts, for both men and women. Unlike Forever 21, it has a lot more in the men's department and has both trendy and smart casual items. Perhaps Penn Square can push out half the stores in the JcPenney wing out </DREAMS>.

[Bunty]

If they are smart, they will open one at Crossroads Mall.

But if it was smart to stay at Crossroads Mall, then Dillard's and other anchor tenants would still be there and if by some miracle, marketing conditions had changed for the much better, they would have already moved back there.

[Larry OKC]

I do think OKC is ready for an up-scale lifestyle center and I think the CHK development is where it is most likely to happen.

If they could just get things worked out with the City of Nichols Hills, this could not only happen soon but I also think it would be extremely successful.

So what exactly is a "life style center"? How does it differ from an enclosed mall, a strip mall or an open air race-track mall (OKC Outlet)

[betts]

A true lifestyle center contains housing and businesses as well as retail. A renovated Nichols Hills Plaza was planned as a lifestyle center. They were going to put a third floor for housing. Some of the more vocal residents of Nichols Hills put the kibosh on that unfortunately. I saw some of the plans and it looked really nice. The really high end ones are not that common. Actually, many of the lifestyle centers I've seen are fairly tacky, with a Starbucks, Home Depot or Lowes, a few nail salons and some scattered, fairly uninteresting retail. The Domain in Austin is an exception

[Pete]

Larry, generally speaking a lifestyle center combines up-scale shopping (almost always open-air) with leisure elements like ponds, skating rinks, tons of open spaces, water features, etc. The better examples generally have tons of architectural details, many sidewalk cafes and the like. The general idea is to create a place where people just want to hang out, kind of like an artificial town square.

The Plaza in Kansas City is an old-school example but the new trend was probably started (or at least perfected) by The Grove in Los Angeles.

You usually have a department store or two as anchors, but often have a big theater, lots of real restaurants (as opposed to fast food) and only the nicer stores you see in traditional malls.