somerset collection returning to downtown Detroit ... sort of

[stasu1213]

The problem is that no one would drive all the way downtown when they can go to the JC Penney, Target, and Macy's 10 minutes away. Gilbert has the right idea. We need to bring shopping into Detroit that you can't get anywhere else, or in very few places. It makes Detroit's shopping a destination. I noticed that in Chicago. Some of the stores on the Mile were really cool and also they were stores that I had never seen anywhere else. Once you get a bunch of those, THEN you can throw a Macy's down there. It seems like the role of normal 'anchor' stores needs to be reversed in Detroit's case.

You have to understand that, eventhough no one would drive downtown to shop at these stores, there are many people who live in or near the downtown/midtown area. Many people didn't think that the Somerset Collection would not work for why shop at these stores when people would shop at the stores in Somerset Mall that is near them. Gilbert and others were bold enough to give it a try with sucess. They didn't buy into the "it would not work in Detroit" theory.

I wasn't saying that JcPenny and Target should be a permanent fixture for now. I was saying that a popup Target and other middle end affordable store would also be a sucess in the downtown area. Chicago's Target is a sucess. Open a permanent Target or WalMart where the Farmer Jacks once was in the Jefferson Village strip mall and see how Detroiters and people from the nearby suburbs would support that also.

Give things a try. You will be surprise how much of a sucess it could be.

[Wheels]

You have to understand that, eventhough no one would drive downtown to shop at these stores, there are many people who live in or near the downtown/midtown area. Many people didn't think that the Somerset Collection would not work for why shop at these stores when people would shop at the stores in Somerset Mall that is near them. Gilbert and others were bold enough to give it a try with sucess. They didn't buy into the "it would not work in Detroit" theory.

I wasn't saying that JcPenny and Target should be a permanent fixture for now. I was saying that a popup Target and other middle end affordable store would also be a sucess in the downtown area. Chicago's Target is a sucess. Open a permanent Target or WalMart where the Farmer Jacks once was in the Jefferson Village strip mall and see how Detroiters and people from the nearby suburbs would support that also.

Give things a try. You will be surprise how much of a sucess it could be.

A pop up Target? Now that is funny in so many ways!

[stasu1213]

A pop up Target? Now that is funny in so many ways!

A pop up Neiman Marcus was also until it became a part of the pop-up Somerset Collection City Lofts. Target, Macys, JCPenney and other middle end stores could do the same thing that Somerset is doing in downtown Detroit with much sucess. Target could sell some of it's brands. However, a permanent Target would do go in the downtown area or somewhere along Jefferson.

[Hermod]

A pop up Neiman Marcus was also until it became a part of the pop-up Somerset Collection City Lofts. Target, Macys, JCPenney and other middle end stores could do the same thing that Somerset is doing in downtown Detroit with much sucess. Target could sell some of it's brands. However, a permanent Target would do go in the downtown area or somewhere along Jefferson.

Wheels, my friend, some things just sail over peoples heads. Whooooosh!