This is interesting. Boulevard St. Louis will have an Ann Taylor Loft as well as Plaza Frontenac and West County Center. West County Center will open a regular Ann Taylor in the Spring as well. Oversaturation?



Boccelli can be found in upscale malls like Dallas Galleria, Copley Place in Boston, and Water Tower Place in Chicago.







Plaza Frontenac to get new stores this spring

St. Louis Business Journal

01/14/05



Plaza Frontenac will be getting two new stores this spring: Ann Taylor Loft and Boccelli.



Rena Abrams, marketing director for the shopping center, said the new stores complement the center's ongoing emphasis on specialty boutiques unique to St. Louis and on attracting a younger, fashion-conscious customer to the center.



The Ann Taylor Loft store will open in a 5,000-square-foot store on the first level near Neiman Marcus.



The Boccelli store is a women's specialty boutique that sells upscale accessories including designers Burberry, Dior, Fendi, Prada and others.



The 600-square-foot store will be on the upper level near the center of the mall. It will be Boccelli's only store in St. Louis.



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Plaza Frontenac

Didn't Gap Kids /Baby Gap say they will close their store there? The mall is like 100% occupied, very hard to get space in there. Definitely, good news for Plaza Frontenac.

Does anyone know what is being built in the parking lot of Plaza Frontenac on the Lindbergh side of the mall? I assume it will be a restaurant, however last I looked, there was no sign on the construction fence identifying what the building will be.

I heard a williams and sonoma home store... don't hold me to it though



http://www.wshome.com/

^I've heard that too since I work across the street and people constantly ask whats going up.

Maybe its just me but it seems like the worst locaton to build. Especially considering the sea of parking where they could have built elsewhere and easier.

Plaza Frontenac is probably the easiest mall to park at in St. Louis. Very rarely do I have to venture to the surface parking, the garage usually has plenty of room. Goes to show if the malls would only do a better job at keeping the hoards of loitering teens out it makes a better environment for the rest of us. Are you listening Galleria?

Jeff707 wrote:There's a parking garage at Frontenac?

Under the building. Not a ton of spaces but plenty during non-crazy times.

Plaza Frontenac is probably the easiest mall to park at in St. Louis. Very rarely do I have to venture to the surface parking, the garage usually has plenty of room. Goes to show if the malls would only do a better job at keeping the hoards of loitering teens out it makes a better environment for the rest of us. Are you listening Galleria?

By 'hordes of loitering teens' you mean those who can't afford to shop at plaza frontenac anyways, right? and by 'rest of us', you're referring to those over the age of 40?



Oh, and sometimes, just sometimes, teenagers buy things, then hang around at the mall with their friends. Cause that's called socializing.

and by 'rest of us', you're referring to those over the age of 40?

Over 40?! Thats putting it kindly. The typical shoppers at Frontenac seem to be really really old money that should have expired years ago.



And if the store that they are building is one of the larger ones, it must not be a large chain. All thats up right now is a bare bones steel frame and it looks pretty small. Perhaps there may be two levels?

My aunt and cousin shop there quite a bit. I always feel like the people there know I don't belong there anytime I end up going with them, and happen to walk through Saks or something.

I always feel like I should have washed my car or something before I head there for the theater.

It looks like the rumor of a Williams Sonoma Home store is correct. According to the planning and zoning committee meeting minutes for the city of Frontenac, this will be a 7000sf store and will be the sixth one in the chain.



http://www.cityoffrontenac.org/files/PZ ... 012406.pdf

Frontenac to lose one big name but gain three

By Deb Peterson

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

05/10/2008





SHOPPING NIRVANA: Three luxury retailers will make their debuts soon on the main level of Plaza Frontenac. Juicy Couture and Kate Spade are both newcomers to our town. Juicy plans to open in November; Kate Spade next spring. Also opening a third local store at Frontenac is Teavana, a specialty retailer offering more than 100 varieties of loose-leaf teas and tea sets, including handcrafted Japanese cast iron, famous Chinese Yixing clay pots and fine bone china. Teavana plans to open in September. Juicy Couture is a California fashion phenomenon that will feature a full range of women's and children's clothing and accessories. Kate Spade is an upscale brand from the Liz Claiborne line. The store here will offer shoes, handbags, apparel, fragrances and accessories. The three new stores will be added to Frontenac's existing collection of more than 40 retailers, including anchors Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, restaurants and a movie theater. Kate Spade and Juicy will replace Talbots Kids, which has been at Frontenac since 1995 and plans to close in the fall. Teavana will be adjacent to Canyon Cafe and the Strauss-Peyton Gallery, which will be relocated within the shopping center. Privately held Davis Street Land Co. owns Frontenac. The principals of the company are responsible for such properties as Orland Park Crossing in Orland Park, Ill.; Renaissance Place in Highland Park, Ill.; the Mall at Green Hills in Nashville, Tenn.; and the Gardens on El Paseo in Palm Desert, Calif. It is also developing the Meadows at Lake Saint Louis.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/c ... enDocument

^It may have something to do with the fact that the typical shopper at Frontenac has no small children. Have you seen the people that shop there??

I've been there a few times and at 23, I'm the youngest person in the building by far.

It's really an old dowager mall. I work across the street and can vouch for this.

Arch City wrote:Seems like great additions. Wonder what happened to Talbot Kids? Poor sales?

All Talbot Kids Stores and Talbot Mens stores are being closed down across the country. This includes the locations at Plaza Frontenac and in Chesterfield. I have heard that Burberry is looking to take the spot that Talbot Mens is currently in at Plaza Frontenac

I always envisioned stores of this caliber locating in Carondelet Village.

I found plans on the Frontenac city website for an expanded Plaza Frontenac in the site of the Shriners Hospital. Once the hospital moves to the CWE, the land will be used as an extension of Plaza Frontenac.

FromTheLou wrote:I found plans on the Frontenac city website for an expanded Plaza Frontenac in the site of the Shriners Hospital. Once the hospital moves to the CWE, the land will be used as an extension of Plaza Frontenac.

It actually looks like BJC will develop the site. There are no plans currently for Plaza Frontenac to expand. This was in an article from the Business Journal a few weeks ago:

BJC HealthCare is eyeing the Shriners Hospital property in Frontenac.



The health-care system, St. Louis' largest employer, is evaluating whether the 15-acre property at 2001 S. Lindbergh Blvd. could be used for future development, according to a planning document obtained by the Business Journal. The property, which is just south of Highway 40 and next to the Plaza Frontenac shopping mall, could cost an estimated $12 million, according to the BJC scenario planning report.



BJC spokeswoman June Fowler declined to comment about the health-care system's interest in the Shriners site: "We're always looking at property," she said.

http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stor ... a=from_rss

Arch City wrote:

ChesterfieldKid03 wrote:I have heard that Burberry is looking to take the spot that Talbot Mens is currently in at Plaza Frontenac.

Thanks for your information.



And I think it's well past time that Burberry entered the St. Louis market. At this rate, Plaza Frontenac might have to add an addition.

A Burberrys store that opened in Plaza Frontenac in 1989 failed in 1993.