Brookfield Place
From Brookfield Place Ensues High Fashion & Hot Debate
The question of whether malls are in or out in Manhattan has been hotly contested since Brookfield Place, a luxury mall in downtown Manhattan, sprung up directly across from Ground Zero. Even as a Real Estate investor, I can relate to both sides of this argument, especially when bringing it down to the basic question of what exactly constitutes a mall? As Adam Bonislawski relates in his Observer article, there seems to be some question over whether or not Brookfield Place can even be categorized as such.
On the one hand, we live in a world of convenience so this just might be the obvious next step. Why make residents in TriBeCa trudge all the way up to Madison Avenue for their high-end shopping, when they could do it all in one place close to home? And while erecting the first Gucci store in America, wouldn’t it also make sense to put in a food court filled with internationally renowned cuisine within a stone’s throw perhaps, even within the very same building? After all, this is TriBeCa.
But, then again—a mall? In Manhattan? Isn’t this 2016? Maybe a mall feels a bit antiquated in the age of online shopping. One …show more content…
Many publications contest its specific location—just a glance away from Ground Zero. In his piece on Brookfield Place in the The New York Times, Jon Caramanica calls the presence of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum so close to the mall, “a chaos of remembrance, competitive and dense,” while Bonislawski relates a trip he took to the monument after visiting Brookfield Place: “[I] watched tourists lean over the edge to better capture pictures of themselves in front of the two holes in the earth symbolizing where thousands died. All day and all night, water flows into the wounds. The city’s confessional strength is as appealing to visitors as its gaudy
The question of whether malls are in or out in Manhattan has been hotly contested since Brookfield Place, a luxury mall in downtown Manhattan, sprung up directly across from Ground Zero. Even as a Real Estate investor, I can relate to both sides of this argument, especially when bringing it down to the basic question of what exactly constitutes a mall? As Adam Bonislawski relates in his Observer article, there seems to be some question over whether or not Brookfield Place can even be categorized as such.
On the one hand, we live in a world of convenience so this just might be the obvious next step. Why make residents in TriBeCa trudge all the way up to Madison Avenue for their high-end shopping, when they could do it all in one place close to home? And while erecting the first Gucci store in America, wouldn’t it also make sense to put in a food court filled with internationally renowned cuisine within a stone’s throw perhaps, even within the very same building? After all, this is TriBeCa.
But, then again—a mall? In Manhattan? Isn’t this 2016? Maybe a mall feels a bit antiquated in the age of online shopping. One …show more content…
Many publications contest its specific location—just a glance away from Ground Zero. In his piece on Brookfield Place in the The New York Times, Jon Caramanica calls the presence of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum so close to the mall, “a chaos of remembrance, competitive and dense,” while Bonislawski relates a trip he took to the monument after visiting Brookfield Place: “[I] watched tourists lean over the edge to better capture pictures of themselves in front of the two holes in the earth symbolizing where thousands died. All day and all night, water flows into the wounds. The city’s confessional strength is as appealing to visitors as its gaudy