The Herald Square shopping area that flows into NoMad is getting a Nordstrom Rack at 855 Sixth Ave. on W. 31st Street.
The huge, approximately 46,500-square-foot store will open in the ground, lower level and second floor of the Durst Organization’s newly constructed mixed-use tower.
This store will join the one at 60 E. 14th St. to become the second Rack in Manhattan, with others in Brooklyn and Queens.
The parent company is expected to open its first city Nordstrom flagship in 2019. This will be in the large base of Gary Barnett’s residential Central Park Tower at 225 W. 57th St., which will top off at 1,550 feet, becoming the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
As we previously reported, Nordstrom had been considering a Rack for 3 Columbus Circle, across Broadway from the flagship, but ultimately decided to use that retail space for a freestanding men’s department.
The Nordstrom Rack at the Durst project will open this fall. This building is unusual for the city in that it has both office and residential space. It includes 375 residential rental apartments topping 150,000 square feet of Nike office space over this retail space and a garage.
Nordstrom was represented by Stephen Stephanou and Thibaud Veil of Crown Retail Services. Durst was represented by Ross Berkowitz, Robert Futterman and Peter Whitenack of RKF along with an in-house team of Eric Engelhardt, Rocco Romeo, Lindsey Ravesloot and Meghan Duffany. The asking rent for the ground floor was $250 per foot.
