Nordstrom Inc., the Seattle-based fashion specialty retailer, announced Tuesday it will open a 35,000-square-foot Nordstrom Rack this fall at City Center Shopping Center in downtown White Plains.
Nordstrom Rack is the company”™s off-price retail division that offers savings of 30 percent to 75 percent on apparel and accessories for women, men and children. It merchandises products from Nordstrom full-line stores and the company”™s online store at Nordstrom.com as well as special purchase items.
“City Center is a compelling destination with a great mix of retail, restaurants and entertainment, and we”™re excited to be a part of it,” said Scott Meden, president of Nordstrom Rack. “We”™re eager to open our doors and we hope that this new store will make shopping more convenient for customers in and around White Plains.”
The City Center store will be the retailer”™s second Rack store in New York. Nordstrom also operates two full-line stores in the metropolitan area at Roosevelt Field in Garden City and at The Westchester in White Plains. Founded in 1901 as a shoe store in Seattle, the publicly traded company has 159 stores in 28 states.
Louis R. Cappelli, president of Cappelli Enterprises Inc. in Valhalla, City Center”™s developer and owner, welcomed Nordstrom as “a prestigious name in the world of fashion retailing. The Rack fits perfectly within our mix of tenants that includes very strong fashion retailers such as Filene”™s Basement, as well as numerous other top-end retailers such as Target and Barnes & Noble,” he said.
“City Center plays an important role in the overall retail success of downtown White Plains. Having Nordstrom Rack join our tenant roster brings even greater strength to our center and the city as a whole,” Cappelli said.
White Plains Mayor Joseph Delfino said that the addition of Nordstrom Rack to the retail community in the heart of the city is the latest testimony to the continuing vibrancy of the city”™s downtown. Nordstrom opened its first store in New York state at The Westchester mall in 1995, he noted.
City Center, a $350-million, 1.1 million-square-foot complex, opened in October 2003. It features 400,000 square feet of retail space, 30,000 square feet of restaurants, a 15-screen multiplex theater, the 450-seat White Plains Performing Arts Center and a residential loft tower called One City Place.
