Nolita is getting an Issey Miyake store at the base of 152 Elizabeth St. on the corner of Kenmare Street.
The 2,224-square-foot shop makes perfect sense for the Japanese fashion mogul as the building was designed by fellow countryman, friend and Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, as his first in the US.
Genaro Otero and Yair Staav of MHP Real Estate Services represented the tenant in this third US outpost — all in New York. Miyake’s Pleats Please is open at 126 Prince St. while his Tribeca flagship with interiors designed by another Pritzker winner, Frank Gehry, is at 119 Hudson St.
Pierce Thompson of RKF represented developers Sumaida + Khurana, which had an asking rent of $225 per square foot.
Co-founder Amit Khurana says the retail space will open at the end of 2019. “Miyake-san and Ando-san designed 2121, a museum exhibition gallery concept together and the corporate offices for Miyake,” Khurana said.
“This project is about these kinds of shared collaboration and vision.
“[The retailer] was looking to do something special and wanted to create something fresh and had a real kind of vision,” Khurana added. “This building spoke to them.”
