By Christopher Bjork
MADRID--Spain's Industria del Diseño Textil SA has purchased a
commercial property in the heart of New York's SoHo neighborhood
for $280 million, the latest addition to a portfolio of large
real-estate deals conducted by the fashion company behind the Zara
brand.
The world's largest fashion retailer said in a news release that
the 47,000 square feet space, located on Broadway, between Broome
Street and Spring Street, will house a Zara store which is set to
open at the end of this year.
While Inditex, which has more than 6,000 stores world-wide, has
a relatively small presence in the U.S. compared with Europe and
Asia, the apparel maker has recently opened several big stores in
large U.S. cities, and its online store sales there are growing
significantly.
Inditex usually rents store space, but in the past few years the
cash-rich retailer has made several big property acquisitions in
key shopping streets of large cities in Europe and the U.S.
In 2011, it bought the former National Basketball Association's
store at 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan for $324 million. It has also
bought prime real estate in London and Milan.
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