?What New Retail Does Downtown Need?

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Re: ?What New Retail Does Downtown Need?

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mean wrote:Music shop, video, and bookstores are pretty much dead at this point anyway.
True. Unless you're a Prosperos kind of bookstore.
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Office Depot, Staples
Even those stores have a threat to survive - Amazon and online orders in general.
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Most major retailers wont think about downtown until population doubles. Downtown must focus on more market rate housing as #1 priority. Once that happens the rest will come on its own.
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KCtonic wrote:
mean wrote:Music shop, video, and bookstores are pretty much dead at this point anyway.
True. Unless you're a Prosperos kind of bookstore.
Right, vintage and used media stores are still pretty viable, but not so much at downtown rents, I'd think.
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BTW I think I saw a record store is opening in Westport, maybe next to Dave's. Was I seeing things.
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KCtonic wrote:
mean wrote:Music shop, video, and bookstores are pretty much dead at this point anyway.
True. Unless you're a Prosperos kind of bookstore.
True. Prospero's is raking it in. I hear they are in talks to sell to Barnes and Noble for an outrageous sum.
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earthling wrote:BTW I think I saw a record store is opening in Westport, maybe next to Dave's. Was I seeing things.
are you confusing it with the record store that closed?
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earthling wrote:Most major retailers wont think about downtown until population doubles. Downtown must focus on more market rate housing as #1 priority. Once that happens the rest will come on its own.
I expect a big box store (Target?) to jump in first. there's no way downtown can get the product categories they sell anywhere near as easy.
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Barnes and Noble has a location at Country Club Plaza.

City Target? Foods Festival? Shopko? Nuts and Bolts? Huddle House is open 24/7 in Westport. Ozarkland? Ron John Surf Shop?
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RD4L?
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mgsports wrote:Barnes and Noble has a location at Country Club Plaza.

City Target? Foods Festival? Shopko? Nuts and Bolts? Huddle House is open 24/7 in Westport. Ozarkland? Ron John Surf Shop?
Ron johns surf shop! A million times yes/what!?
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