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Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Turnover on Palmer Square as Shops Depart
Retailers Kate Spade, Aerosoles, Palm Place A Lllly Pulitzer Signature Store, and Design Within Reach have all closed up shop on Palmer Square in recent weeks. But what may look like a mass departure is just a routine part of turnover, according to management. And discussions with new “very exciting tenants” to take their places are underway. “It doesn’t have to do with money,” said David Newton, vice president of Palmer Square Management. “It happens that their leases were up at the same time. Two of them were doing very healthy sales. It had to do with the internal workings of their companies. I was upset that they were going, but on all of these spaces, we are in various stages of talking closely with a number of tenants.” Mr. Newton declined to name the future tenants, but noted that another deal was being completed this week. “I can’t say until they are signed,” he said. Aerosoles at 69 Palmer Square was offering discounts of up to 70 percent before closing last week. A spokesperson for Design Within Reach, which at 30 Nassau Street was considered part of the Square, confirmed that the store had left town but would not disclose the reason.
The Kate Spade store at 10 Hulfish Street informed customers through email that it was leaving Palmer Square but urged them to continue shopping the brand of accessories online. The increased popularity of online shopping has had an effect on the way consumers buy goods. “Bear in mind that there is an enormous shift going on in the retail business,” Mr. Newton said. “It’s called omni-channel retailing, and it has to do with how much the Internet takes away from bricks and mortar. Most retail-
ers are coming to the understanding that they need a bit of both.” A recent expansion of The Farmhouse Store and the signing of the exercise franchise Pure Barre, which will open late this month at 31 Hulfish Street above Mediterra restaurant, are signs of continued health on the Square, Mr. Newton added. Pure Barre has more than 275 studios across the country and will carry a line of activewear in the Princeton location. The studio is offering a pre-opening special of
“The evil that men do lives after them;” says Shakespeare’s devious Marc Antony in his famous funeral oration from the play Julius Caesar. “The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar.” And Woodrow Wilson too? Or not? The Wilson Legacy Review CommitLongtime Professional tee of the Princeton University Board of Actor, Princeton Resident, Trustees, in taking on the responsibility of and Princeton Seminary Continued on Page 4 assessing the record of Mr. Wilson, who Professor William Brower, was president of the University from 1902 89, Dies . . . . . . . . . . 31 to 1910 and president of the United States from 1913 to 1921, has gathered letters Former PU Standout Cooke Flourishing with from nine distinguished Wilson scholars, Boston . . . . . . . . . . . 23 from a wide spectrum of backgrounds and A trio of Princeton University fresh- level. The Princeton students will travel universities, providing dozens of pages men are in the running for the seventh to the regionals in Boston next month to PHS Boys’ Swimming of historical information and insight, but Takes 3rd in County annual Hult Prize, which could win them pitch their idea and describe their businothing likely to make the committee’s Meet as Chiang Produces $1 million in start-up funding “to change ness model. job easier. Inspired Effort . . . . . . 27 the world,” as the organization’s website Students from Rutgers University are The one discernible consensus seems says. also scheduled to compete. Additional to be that Woodrow Wilson’s life was rich Ricardo Diaz, Viktoria Zlatinova, and regional finals are being held in San and complex and that the committee’s Evan Trauger are hoping that Ryde, a Francisco, Dubai, London, and Shangworthy task in exploring and confrontsubscription-based transportation serhai. 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