Shack Shack must be cooking up a fortune at its Downtown Brooklyn Fulton Mall location, which opened in December. The New York Post reports today that the burger joint is sniffing a second neighborhood shop on Flatbush Avenue, just across from the new 18,200-seat Barclays Center. The venue hosts its grand opening tonight with rap […]
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Talking ‘Bout A Revolution: High-End Swarovski Joins Fulton Mall
Jewelry and Crystal shop Swarovski is joining Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall revolution with a 2,500 square-foot lease on the ground floor of 490 Fulton Street, its first boutique in the borough, according to The New York Post. The upscale retailer joins Express and Seattle’s Best Coffee in the fully renovated five-story building, with Raymour & […]
Adams Street’s American BBQ And Beer Beefs Up For March Opening
American BBQ and Beer Co., is prepping an April 2013 launch, alongside Panera Bread and Potbelly Sandwich Shop on the Downtown Brooklyn border in the Adams Street Municipal Building at 345 Adams and Willoughby. The high-end eatery will include a wood-burning oven, smoke pit, seafood station with live lobster tanks, deep-fried turkey station, full bakery […]
Take A Look At Me Then: Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Street, 1909/1940s
Above, “Bird’s Eye View Of Fulton Street,” December 1909. Below, “Fulton Street, the heart of Brooklyn’s shopping district,” 1940s.
Who Needs Manhattan: BK’s Fulton Mall Revival A Bona Fide Reality
When The New York Times pens a story on the revitalization of Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall, it heralds a watermark moment: sort of like, if the Times sniffs it as a reality, the revival has got to have credence. Its August 28 piece announced “National Retailers Discover a Brooklyn Mall.” Mind you—to toot our own […]
Quote Of the Day: Downtown Brooklyn ‘Back To The Future,’ M. Markowitz
From The New York Times article, “National Retailers Discover a Brooklyn Mall,” August 28, 2012. (Graphic: Chuck Taylor)
Dekalb Market Calls It Quits… For Now
Following a June mandate to vacate its Downtown Brooklyn digs as the burgeoning mixed-use City Point project begins a new phase of development, urban foodie & retail oasis Dekalb Market was intending to scout out a new space for the holiday season. But it looks like we can fuhgeddaboudit. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the […]
Furniture Retailer Raymour & Flanigan Joins Fulton Mall Revolution
One after another… The big boom continues in Downtown Brooklyn, with yet another national retailer signing on to set up digs on Fulton Mall’s 17-block stretch from Boerum Place to Flatbush Avenue. Furniture chain Raymour & Flanigan will occupy a robust 28,000 square feet on the second floor at 490 Fulton Street. As BHB readers […]
Fulton Mall Welcomes Another Major Retailer: Say Hello To Express
A shiny new Express store at 490 Fulton Street along Fulton Mall has opened in the rapidly gentrifying Downtown Brooklyn shopping destination. Michael Weiss, CEO of the men’s and women’s clothier and a Brooklyn native, was present for the festive “block party” opening last Wednesday. He tells the New York Observer that he began his […]
Potbelly Joins Adams Street’s Burgeoning ‘Restaurant Row'; Two More Coming
Chicago-based Potbelly Sandwich Shop is opening its first Brooklyn location and tenth New York locale at 345 Adams, next to Panera Bread, along the corridor’s new “Restaurant Row.” A sign in the window promises, “A warm new neighbor, coming soonish,” Brownstoner reports. The eatery, which serves breakfast, sandwiches, soups and baked goods, will occupy 2,500sf. […]
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