Consumers cannot beam into the coming MakerBot Store at 72 Greenwich Ave, but once inside the world of “Star Trek” will be very much on display and for sale.
New York City-based MakerBot, which bills itself as the global leader in desktop 3-D printing and scanning, is scheduled to open two new retail stores this holiday season: in Boston and Greenwich.
The new stores will showcase MakerBot”™s 3-D printers and scanner and will feature the MakerBot 3-D Photo Booth, workshops and 3-D printed gifts.
The two stores are expected to open for the holiday shopping crush. They are currently hiring; online applications are available at makerbot.com/careers.
The two new locations complement the company”™s flagship store on Mulberry Street in lower Manhattan. MakerBot also sells online and through a global network of resellers throughout the world.
“Boston and Greenwich are great retail environments and we are excited to bring the MakerBot Store to both cities,” said Bre Pettis, CEO of MakerBot. “This is also a homecoming of sorts for some of our employees as many attended schools in the area; our president, Jenny Lawton, has also been a retail fixture in Greenwich and ran her own tech company in the Boston area.”
Lawton”™s background is tech, but she also has run two successful independent bookstores, Just Books in Greenwich and Old Greenwich, plus Arcadia Coffee in Old Greenwich.
In Boston, Lawton was founder of an information technology-consulting firm.
“Boston and Greenwich are both terrific, tech-savvy communities, so it seemed natural to expand the MakerBot Store presence in these two areas,” said Lawton, who is president of MakerBot.
