I seen a sign up behind Kohls/Dollar Tree today for an Ashley Home Store coming soon.
I seen a sign up behind Kohls/Dollar Tree today for an Ashley Home Store coming soon.
That's good news, I really like some of their furniture and hopefully it will be a better price than Mathis Bros. Cut out the middle man!
There's a dollar tree up there? Wow, real upscale.
I am not a fan of Dollar Tree and would rather have more upscale options, but the planners DID say that there would be stores like that on THAT side of the road. The upscale part is supposed to be across the street between Crest and the Embassy Suites. This development is very misunderstood.
I know i know. However, I've seen lifestyle centers pop up everywhere up north and many fail miserably because there is no additional development around them. At least now there is a significant amount of people in that area every day which should help drive more people to the area to make a higher end store do well.
There are 7000 Dollar Tree stores around the country including many in "Upscale" malls.
There's a Dollar Tree in the Mall of America, at North Park Mall in Dallas and in many fine centers.
You'll find some Dollar Trees next to Nordstrom's, next to Neiman's.
It is one of the more well run businesses in retailing.
And I'm not just saying this because I've built Dollar Tree's in Connecticut, Long Island, Seattle, Portland, Florida,
and in 30 other spots across the country.
The Dollar Tree brings traffic. Even the princesses and Lambo drivers drop in to fill their Gucci's they've just bought up the road.
I have some doubt that there is a nordstrom next to a dollar tree.
You have to keep in mind that this was developed during the real estate crash. Many discount retailers are finding themselves welcome in places they were once snubbed. They have the money to expand while others don't have money to expand or have the money and have chosen to invest in their exiting locations.
The council's agenda for last Tuesday included the UNP Final Site Development Plan. It's, of course, terrible design.
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Isn't this a lovely life-style center design?
It just looks like a nightmare to navigate with a car, much less with your feet!!
If I'm not mistaken that is south of rock creek and west of 24th. In theory the lifestyle portion is supposed to start NE of there. And I agree, crappy layout.
It's bad that we have to distinguish which streets are which to determine which part of the development is supposed to be a "lifestyle center" and which part isn't.....since we obviously can't tell by the design because it's all the same typical linear commercial sprawling development.
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