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Old Posted Apr 10, 2014, 12:09 PM
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All I know is J&R better not close.

I didn't even know this was happening. Seems like it wasn't that long ago they did work on the store.


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/ny...s&emc=rss&_r=0

J & R Closes Manhattan Store for a Redesign


By ASHLEY SOUTHALL
APRIL 10, 2014


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J & R Music and Computer World, a mainstay music and electronics store in Lower Manhattan for 43 years, closed its doors on Wednesday to redesign its space on Park Row.

The move was foreshadowed in October, when the store scaled back its footprint between Ann and Bleekman Streets. Once occupying eight buildings on those blocks totaling 300,000 square feet, the business was resized to five floors each at 1 Park Row and 15 Park Row. Rachelle Friedman, who with her husband, Joseph, opened J & R across from City Hall in 1971, acknowledged at the time that as part of the changes they were laying off some employees.

A digital rendition included in the announcement on J & R’s website depicted the storefront at the corner of Ann Street and Park Row with a modern glass facade and the year 2015 written below it. A spokesman for the Friedmans, Matthew Hiltzik, said the couple hope to reopen the store next year, but a date has not been set and a design has not been finalized.

The store, whose closing was reported on Wednesday evening by The Daily News, said in the announcement that it needed to keep up with technology, retailing and real estate trends and that it would close “so that we can rebuild this location into what we hope will be an unprecedented retailing concept and social mecca.”

The closing leaves the company without a brick-and-mortar presence for the first time. An outpost at the Macy’s in Herald Square closed about two years ago amid a redesign at the department store, Mr. Hiltzik said. J & R will continue to sell merchandise online and on Amazon, he said.

I think I did more shopping online than in the store, so it's no wonder. But let's see what this means, if anything, for any tower planned at the other end.


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