Report: Restoration Hardware to take USPS building

Restoration Hardware reportedly plans to lease a former U.S. Postal Service building in Greenwich, with the company already operating a location a few blocks up Greenwich Avenue.

New York City-based Malkin Properties purchased the former post office building at 310 Greenwich Ave. building last August for more than $15 million, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that Restoration Hardware is taking up quarters there.

Restoration Hardware has an existing store at 239 Greenwich Ave., as well as in downtown Westport. The Greenwich private equity firm Catterton Partners holds a controlling stake in Restoration Hardware, which is based in Corte Madera, Calif.

The Postal Service building was designed in 1915 and is on the National Register of Historic Places, which called the structure”™s design to fit the triangular property formed by the intersection of Greenwich Avenue and Arch Street “inspired.”