Macy’s Inc., a relatively new player in the outlet business, is liking the sector.
On Tuesday, the retailer said it would open Bloomingdale’s Outlets in November in The Shops at Liberty Place in Center City Philadelphia and in Westfield Mission Valley in San Diego. Each will have 20,000 square feet on one level.
Another Bloomingdale’s Outlet is set to open in November at 2085 Broadway on the northwest corner of 72nd Street in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, as previously reported.
The three upcoming openings bring the Bloomingdale’s Outlet chain to 16 units. Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s are divisions of the $28 billion Macy’s Inc.
The Bloomingdale’s Outlet concept, launched in 2010, operates units in California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Virginia and now Pennsylvania.
This summer, the Macy’s division entered the off-price arena by launching the first Macy’s Backstage stores, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn; Queens Place in Elmhurst, Queens; the Melville Mall in Huntington, Long Island, and in the Lake Success Shopping Center in New Hyde Park on Long Island. Additional Macy’s Backstage stores will open at 400 East Fordham Road in The Bronx, N.Y., in mid-October, and in the Essex Green Shopping Center in West Orange, N.J., in the first week of November.