Yeah, shows they have some experience going with a larger footprint. Hopefully they do it right, but time will tell.
I agree with their commitment level too, seems they are about everywhere a Lowe’s Food or Harris Teeter is now-a-days. My family and I have been vacationing in Emerald Isle, NC for my entire life and I was surprised a couple years back they opened up a Publix down there. Not sure how much money they make during the off-season down there but it was always slammed during vacation season
I wonder if they would consider opening a Publix Greenwise there. AFAIK there isn’t a Greenwise in the Triangle area. It is a little more upscale than their normal stores. It would be more similar to Wegmens.
Yeah. They closed 2 in SC last year because they were small footprint, and their vision is larger footprints. It would be interesting if they chose to expand to NC with a giant footprint single store.
I think it will honestly just be a big Publix. I reached out to Fenton and they said they have no announcements to make, and then I guess they had the mayor remove that part of his post.
I want a Gucci Store, a Nieman Marcus, and a Kate Spade store in Raleigh. Idc if some people can’t afford it, Raleigh needs to settle for more and start giving a rats booty about Gavin nice things if Raleigh wants to be on the map we gotta put on the map things. Raleigh metro median income has an average of $67,266 per Census.gov. So people can afford it. I’m tired of some people even on this forum and they know who they are, not caring about not wanting more and settling for less. If we want this and that for our city we need to get out of the quaint rocking chair mindset and destroying the JGKES James Goodknight Education Syndrome and the new disorder I came up with TQPMD “The Quaint People’s Mindset Disorder”. And get progressive I don’t care what NIMBYs feel they always gonna be mad why not rub it in there faces.
People definitely have the money here in the Triangle for those brands. I currently live in Norfolk/Virginia Beach but grew up in Raleigh. It is night and day difference the amount of money that the average person has here. My sister and I try to count the exotic cars we see on a daily basis. I see a different McLaren P1 every other day ($1.3M car). I’m not rich, but theres definitely a high population of ballers out here.
The Village (formerly Cameron Village) could have been that high end luxury district full of luxury global brands but I don’t think the owners have the vision to get that done.
Whomever can get the 3rd Apple store and popular in-demand brands like Zara plus lux brands will be very successful. Park City South concept with some tweaking would have been ideal but that went sideways.
IMO, Raleigh has a whole lot of “upper middle class” and not a lot of extremely high-end/luxury. I probably wouldn’t frequent it often, but it would be nice if the city had more very high-end shopping. I think North Hills or Fenton might come the closest, but again, they seem more upper middle class than truly luxury.
We do have higher income levels than some places that have that type of amenity, so I would think the area could support it, but I would also think those brands have pretty advanced metrics to decide where to locate.
Not understanding the hate here. Nieman Marcus ; Manhattan and DC no longer have one (Excluding the burbs). There is only 2 Gucci in the San Francisco Bay Area not counting the one in the airport or the outlet store.
I agree that we could use a higher end shopping area so I’m not against having one, but I definitely wouldn’t call it “settling”.
I can see any of the malls having one or more of those stores. Triangle Town Center has Saks Fifth while Southpoint has Nordstrom. I really wish Crabtree would do something in general. I hate seeing that Spirit Halloween store instead of something permanent. I would vote to have the high end mall up at Triangle Town Center to keep it in Raleigh . TTC already has Saks.
I have nothing against high end stores. I just don’t shop in them, so it’s not a draw for me. If Gucci or whoever puts a store in Raleigh, so be it. It’s just not something that gets me excited. Now an Apple store downtown would be nice.
. TTC already has Saks.