Thursday, September 27, 2012

Are they seeing something in Bend?

That would seem to be an impressive group of corporate stores coming in at the Bend Factory Stores mall.

Coach, and a "men's" Coach store; Pendleton (this even interests me); Under Armour; Puma; and Brooks Brothers.  I would have been impressed if they got two of these, much less the bunch.

Either the mall has changed some terms, or made some can't refuse deals -- or...

...the national chains are seeing some stats here in Bend which are -- all of a sudden-- enticing them.

3 comments:

Duncan McGeary said...

Other explanations: an aggressive and effective leasing agent, and or just the usual, grow or die ponzi scheme mass market formula.

Leitmotiv said...

don't know, but if we get a couple takers, it seems to be more evidence that we have left bottom. Probably a year ago.

H. Bruce Miller said...

A Brooks Brothers? Do you mean we're about to get a second good men's clothing store here in Dogpatch? Fantastic!