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030 DETROIT postcard Motor City Makeover A S DETROIT CONTINUES to ascend from the once complete derelict abandonment portrayed in the national media, the retail story has played a large part of the prideful city's redevelopment. National fashion, lifestyle, big-box, specialty and food retailers from the likes of Whole Foods Market, John Varvatos, Meijer, Marshalls, Payless and Starbucks have recently opened within the city limits for the first time. Simultaneously, an uptick of entrepreneurial and independent retailers have begun repurposing shops on previously decommissioned retail streets that have remained abandoned for a decade or more. Three major retail zones of interest include the Central Business District, the Entertainment District by Olympia Development and Midtown. Ken Nisch, chairman of Southfield, Mich.-based JGA, says the Detroit consumer is a story of contrast. "The new and returning consumer 'self-selects' Detroit as a creative and interesting workplace, one where there is tremendous community and institutional resources available and willing to engage, where the cost of real estate creates accessibility, and where a degree of independence, scrappiness and even pioneering spirit is still necessary to both enjoy and address the challenges that exist," he says. Detroit retail. More power to you. - Alison Embrey Medina Will Leather Goods After a successful run on the West Coast, William Adler, founder of Will Leather Goods, has returned to his family's Detroit roots by opening his eighth and largest store in Midtown. Located in the old Tomboy supermarket building, the store retains the terrazzo floor, exposed wooden rafters and abundant natural light. Fixtures are made from reclaimed wood and Douglas fir trees from Oregon, where the company is based. Bonus tracks: the store features a coffee area, a photo gallery and a customization area where customers can personalize items with leather stamps. Photo courtesy of WILL LEATHER GOODS Third Man Records Originally founded by White Stripes front man and Detroit native Jack White in 2001, Third Man Records is an innovator in the world of vinyl records and "a boundary pusher in the world of recorded music." In November 2015, it opened the Third Man Records at Detroit's Cass Corridor, its second retail location (the other opened in Nashville in 2009). The location is part record store, part novelties lounge, part performance stage, part record booth and part vinyl record pressing plant (coming soon). Signal-Return Letterpress Shop Part of the "make-tail" movement of retail concepts that give customers an outlet for self-expression and creativity, this community letterpress print shop and retail store reintroduces the authentic craft of handset printmaking. Located at the vendor-driven Eastern Market, Signal-Return's mission is to "teach, advance and preserve the tradition, craft and art of letterpress printing" and, as its name suggests, "serve as a beacon for the community who respond to and inform what we do." Photo by R. H. HENSLEIGH Photo by THIRD MAN RECORDS/ RALEIGH RICHTER MARCH 2016 DESIGNRETAILONLINE.COM GLOBALSHOP.ORG http://www.DESIGNRETAILONLINE.COM http://www.GLOBALSHOP.ORG

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of design:retail - March 2016

design:retail - March 2016
Contents
Editor's Note
GlobalShop Talk
On Trend
We Love This!
Designer Picks
Clicks & Mortar
Postcard
Perspectives
Have You Heard?
The Visual Eye
Searching for Steve Jobs
GlobalShop 2016
Chelsea Collective
Primark
Marqt
Ports 1961
Art Van Furniture
Ted Baker
Design Leaders Listing
Products
Backstory

design:retail - March 2016