H&M announces plan for Scottsdale store in 2009
May 15th, 2008, 12:20 pm · 7 Comments · posted by Sam Mittelsteadt
H&M announced today they’re going to open a store in Scottsdale in spring 2009. The press info says the 15,000-square-foot, single-level store is going the planned center called Scottsdale Quarter, which will be on Scottsdale Road between Butherus Drive and Greenway-Hayden Loop (east of Kierland Commons).
May 15th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Spring 2009? But I want it now!
May 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Should have been in Tempe Marketplace!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
The day I knew H&M wasn’t going in Tempe Marketplace was the day they announced that PetSmart would be a tenant.
May 18th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
PetSmart > PetCo
May 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I don’t get the obsession with H&M, other than it’s a matter of we don’t have one. I first ran into H&M while stationed in Germany. It was ok, they had some cute things.
When I was stationed back in MD, and later got out, we got a new mall, “Arundel Mills.” Like Arizona Mills. Same company, same ol’ schlep. It had an H&M. It had cute things, at a fairly reasonable cost.
BUT.
I don’t think H&M fits in with the pseudo “Rodeo Drive” attitude Scottsdale is drowning itself in. It isn’t high-end, and it isn’t overpriced. So why does Scottsdale want one so badly? And since it will be in Scottsdale, what will the price point be?
Any guesses?
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
You bring up an interesting point. I’ve heard plenty of talk (from Sam) how H&M would never condescend to be somewhere like Tempe Marketplace and share space with low-end neighbors like PetSmart, but at your “Arundel Mills,” it apparently is rubbing elbows with the likes of T.J. Maxx. I know it’s at plenty of exclusive locales - like Fifth Ave in NYC - but somehow I doubt that the Dearborn, Michigan or Toledo, Ohio H&Ms are in centers much more upscale than Tempe Marketplace.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
Yeah, I’ve been mostly to cities that have Shiny Pretty Stores — Chicago, even the one on … F Street? … in Washington, D.C.
But we also went to one at Potomac Mills, similar to what Miachelle described. Not exactly glamorous. I think the first one in the market, though, is usually more of a showcase kind of store.
The prices of the basics will stay the same, relatively low. (What they call “cheap and chic” you might refer to as “disposable clothing.”)
But they’ve also been doing a lot more limited-time collaborations with designers — Roberto Cavalli and Karl Lagerfeld have both done special collections that were sold only at H&M, and this fall is Comme des Garcons. You can imagine those pieces are priced a bit higher!