Examples of "Urban" orientated big box stores

[diablo234]

Seattle: Downtown Seattle City Target





This store is also one of the first new City Target stores to appear in the US, which tend to be smaller then normal Target stores.

Seattle Times: CityTarget opens in downtown Seattle

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New York City: Metro Mall (Anchors: Kmart, BJ's Wholesale Club, Toy's R US)



Fun Fact: This Kmart location is notable for having the world's longest vermaport, with a length of 120 ft (37 m) and a vertical rise of 50 ft (15 m).

[bayviews]

Originally Posted by diablo234

Proposed Wal-Mart Store at 77 H St. NW with residential on top.

And so contrary to their predicted demise, the mighty Big Box remains alive & well!

Is this bad?

Or could this be good?

[diablo234]

Chicago: Downtown Chicago City Target

New City Target store which opened inside the Sullivan Center, an official city landmark which was also designed by Louis Sullivan, hence Target will not be allowed to make any drastic changes to the building.





Some background info on the project.

Chicago Tribune: Bull's-eye for Target, Retailer to open in old Carsons building

Target Corp., the pioneer of cheap chic, is set to make its debut in Chicago's Loop, cementing State Street as a boulevard of bargains.

The store, called CityTarget, is slated to open next year at the landmark Sullivan Center at 1 S. State St., where Carson Pirie Scott & Co. had operated for more than a century. Carsons closed its flagship department store in 2007, leaving a prominent void at the busy corner of State and Madison streets.

The discount chain's new urban format is smaller than a typical Target store and will stock fresh food, apartment essentials and clothing. The deal gives Target a foothold in the heart of downtown Chicago as the retailer looks to expand into the nation's cities. The city, for its part, achieves a long-standing goal to bring a grocer to the Loop to serve the office district's growing residential population.

"Target will be a big traffic generator," said Paul Vogel, principal at Realty Development Research Inc., a Chicago-based retail real estate consultant. "It sells things people need on a regular basis, and it will bring in a lot of people who will also shop somewhere else on the street."

Target plans to lease 124,000 square feet over two floors but will dedicate only 54,000 square feet as the selling floor, said Amy Reilly, spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-based retailer. The rest of the space will be used for employees, loading areas and storage, she said. The average Target store is 135,000 square feet, including about 100,000 square feet of selling space.

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[diablo234]

Originally Posted by bayviews

And so contrary to their predicted demise, the mighty Big Box remains alive & well!

Is this bad?

Or could this be good?

Honestly since the Industrial Revolution, there have always been large chains, businesses such as Target and Wal-Mart are merely doing what Sears, Caldor, JC Penny, and Macy's have done years before. More retail into the inner cities ultimately means more choices for city residents, employment opportunities, and more neighborhood revitalization (such an example is the Columbia Heights neighborhood in DC which has now become a more desirable place to live thanks to the DC USA development and the nearby metro stop) which is ultimately a good thing in the long run.

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Los Angeles: Westwood City Target









Photos courtesy of Brigham Yen

Grand Opening: Westwood City Target Opens Two Months Ahead of Downtown LA City Target

[urbanaturalist]

Originally Posted by LtBk

Best Buy closed their downtown location in Baltimore back in May.

Damn that is terrible....great location.....go upstairs check some technology, come out side on the balcony check the harbor.....

Great thread though............two of the key ingredients for urban big boxes are escalators/elevators and of course multilevel parking (preferably underground or keeping the street as stores, but levels above as parking.

Trains are important, but until you build the billion dollar train connctions for most places...those two ingredients will have to suffice to avoid the 1 level big box store paradigm.

I like the Target in Buckhead in Atlanta, always wondered how folks would get their carts up the stairs, thinking they would have long lines for elevators ...so simple and ingenious

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxYs1...yer_detailpage

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New York City: River Plaza (Anchors: Target, Marshalls)
http://www.washsquare.com/awards.html

NY Times: Target Gives New Look to the Bronx

Not far from Spuyten Duyvil, the junction of the Harlem and Hudson Rivers in northern Manhattan, two commercial development trends have also converged: a big-box retailer with a major suburban presence has established an urban beachhead and in the process desolate industrial land has been given a much more lucrative reuse.

The result is River Plaza, a $90 million 235,000-square-foot shopping center, which officially opened in August at 40 West 225th Street near the banks of the Harlem River.

Anchored by a 130,000-square-foot Target, a 35,000-square-foot Marshall's and a 7,500-square-foot Applebee's restaurant, the plaza has risen on the site of a former hospital warehouse, some car-repair shops and tire stores, and a fried-chicken restaurant. The 9.5-acre triangle-shaped lot straddles a little piece of the Marble Hill section of Manhattan and a bigger area of the Bronx just west of the Major Deegan Expressway.

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New York City: Queens Place Mall (Anchors: Macy's, Target, Daffy's, DSW, and Best Buy)
http://queens.about.com/cs/shopping/a/queens_malls.htm


New York City: Kings Plaza (Anchors: Macy's, Sears, Best Buy, and Old Navy)
http://kingsplazaonline.com/index.aspx




New York City: Jamaica Home Depot

The home improvement superstore opened a 105,000 square-foot facility on the site of the former Long Island Press building at Archer Avenue and 168th Street in 2007. Rooftop parking accommodates more than 250 cars. The project was developed by the Mattone Group of College Point. The new Home Depot has created 300 new jobs.

http://www.gjdc.org/news-event/recent-development/

New York City: Jamaica Marshalls



Jersey City, NJ: Newport Home Depot



Chicago: Wrigleyville Walmart Express

[Jennifat]

Yikes. New York has a knack for building hulking, hostile, entirely uninviting urban malls.

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by Jennifat

Yikes. New York has a knack for building hulking, hostile, entirely uninviting urban malls.

Alot of those urban malls such as Queens Place and Kings Plaza were built when brutalist architecture was the rage so that is probably why they appear that way. However I decided to include them here since they are multilevel, have subway access nearby, have streetfront access, and last but not least visitors have to pay to park there.

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New York City: SoHo REI


Chicago: Lincoln Park REI


San Francisco: San Francisco Costco
http://www.hellermanus.com/Costco_Wholesale.html


West Hollywood, CA: Target




Dallas: The Shops at Park Lane (Anchors: Dicks Sporting Goods, Nordstrom Rack, Saks Off Fifth, Old Navy, Whole Foods Market)
http://shopsatparklane.com/

[Cal_Escapee]

SOMA (South of Market) CostCo, San Francisco


SOMA Best Buy, San Francisco


Market St. Old Navy, San Francisco


SOMA Discount Mall, San Francisco (featuring Bed, Bath & Beyond, Nordstrom Rack, Pier One and Trader Joe's)



Bayshore Lowe's, San Francisco


Niketown, Union Square, San Francisco

All photos from www.yelp.com

[CrazyAboutCities]

Awesome thread! Some developments posted here are awesome and some of them could get better.

These pictures are not mine.

Seattle, WA - Northgate North (Target, Best Buy, Ross, Petco, and some other stores)


Seattle, WA - Old Navy (they relocated and opened last year)


Seattle, WA - Nordstrom Rack (they relocated and opened recently)


Seattle, WA - REI Flagship Store


Seattle, WA - Whole Foods

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Portland: Galleria (Anchors: Target)
Scheduled to open in Spring 2013



OregonLive.com: Portland, Target unveil plans for City Target at the Galleria downtown

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Downtown Denver might be getting an urban Target store in the near future. So far they still have not decided on a location so no renderings have been released yet.

Denver Post: Target looking at downtown Denver sites for urban store
By Steve Raabe
The Denver Post

Target is eyeing downtown Denver for a department store, part of its new thrust toward locating in urban areas. The Minneapolis-based retailer is in talks to identify downtown Denver sites, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

The first of the new style of urban stores, named City Target, will open next month in Chicago's downtown Loop. Additional stores are set to open in Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Portland, Ore.

Target would not confirm its interest in downtown Denver.

"As it relates to Denver, I don't have any specific information," said Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder.

However, three sources familiar with downtown's commercial-real-estate market said negotiations are underway. One

(Tim Boyle, Bloomberg News)of the sites under consideration is the block bounded by 15th, 16th, Welton and California streets — a prime location between the Denver Pavilions and the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center.

"I certainly can't comment specifically on the conversations that may be taking place," said Jim Kirchheimer, senior vice president at the Downtown Denver Partnership.

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New York City: Brooklyn Costco
http://www.rcdolner.com/projects/ret...stco-wholesale





New York City: Upper East Side TJ Maxx
http://www.rcdolner.com/projects/retail/tj-maxx

[Hia-leah JDM]

Downtown Miami Macy's

image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr

[diablo234]

Originally Posted by Hia-leah JDM

Downtown Miami Macy's

Having a Macy's or another mainstream department store isn't unusual for a downtown area.

Already I can think of several cities in the US that have a downtown department store such as a Macy's or Dillard's:

Boston
NYC
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Washington DC
Chicago
Cincinnati
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Norfolk
New Orleans
Houston
San Antonio
Dallas
Salt Lake City
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Sacramento
Los Angeles
San Diego

etc....

[diablo234]

A multi-level Wal-Mart/Sam's Club in Honolulu:

[CrazyAboutCities]

Eww! Miami Macy's looks ghetto.