Representatives from the retailers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Īs The Post reported last week, the world’s No. With two floors and a lower-level frontage area - amassed from a former McDonald’s and two tourist stores - the ground asking rent is $400 per square foot, lower than others in the area. “Everyone wants to touch the customer,” said Faith Hope Consolo, chairman of Douglas Elliman Retail, who has high hopes one of the lookers will cut a deal for her 22,000 square feet at 345 Fifth Ave. but is also seeking a retail location on the infamous shopping strips found around West 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. That online all-category killer is spreading out from its offices at 7 W. It is also trying to capitalize on the Nordstrom effect and looking for storefronts in the Billionaires’ Row area.

Target, which has just opened its 45,000-square-foot Financial District store at 255 Greenwich St., is now focusing on a 5,000- to 10,000-square-foot space along West 34th Street. HSN’s Cornerstone division operates 14 outlets for its Frontgate, Ballard Designs, Garnet Hill, Grandin Road and Improvements catalogs. HSN’s only outlets are in Florida - in Brandon, Largo, New Port Richey, Sarasota and Tampa. QVC has outlets at its studio in West Chester, along with Frazer and Lancaster, all in Pennsylvania, and at the Tanger Outlets in Myrtle Beach, SC, and perhaps others. The shopping networks already have scattered outlets but none in New York City. And Amazon wants something right on West 34th Street, sources add.īoth multichannel home-shopping retailers have independently decided the teeming shopping area is ripe for a brick-and-mortar store to complement their TV shows and online retail. Two nontraditional retailers, QVC and HSN’s Cornerstone division, along with Target, are scouring the West 34th Street area for new spaces to ply their wares, sources say. Manhattan West is finally fully open for business - Here's what's inside Upscale NYC shops ditch old Uptown for new chic spaces

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