Dov Charney’s Los Angeles Attire will launch its first New York retailer at KPG Funds’ 480 Broadway between Broome and Grand streets.
The 24,687 square-foot house, previously dwelling to TopShop, stands within the coronary heart of Soho’s burgeoning retail scene.
All of Los Angeles Attire’s “ethically driven” merchandise are manufactured in a south-central LA manufacturing unit.
KPG co-founder and CEO Greg Kraut mentioned, “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 mentioned.
The repositioned 480 Broadway has almost 100,000 sq. toes of boutique workplace and retail house.
Charney additionally based American Attire with which he’s now not related.
The house owners of 1251 Sixth Ave. at West 49th Avenue, Mitsui Fudosan America, and managing agent Hines nonetheless have an enormous retail gap to fill following the departure of a 15,000 square-foot Chase department final yr.
However they’ll additionally doubtless have a success on their palms when jumbo Japanese restaurant Double Knot opens within the tower’s floor flooring later this yr.
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.
