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Awesome news! I hope to see a Crate & Barrel (or trendier C2) in Queen St./Metropolis or Yorkville! For those who've never heard of Crate & Barrel, think of Caban or trendier Pier 1.
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Crate & Barrel eyes Canada, Block 37 for new stores
BECKY YERAK
Published May 17, 2005
More than 40 years after opening the first of his 140 stores, Gordon Segal is looking to expand his Crate & Barrel chain north of the border.
The co-founder and chief executive officer of the Northbrook-based home furnishings chain recently said that his private company is considering opening stores in Canada.
"We're looking at Toronto and Vancouver," Segal said at the May 6 opening of a Crate & Barrel in Geneva, his 140th store. "Those will probably be our first foreign markets. We have some locations we're working on, though they may never come to pass. We're looking at early '07 to open."
Segal also said that he's "talking to" the developers of Block 37, the proposed mixed-use Chicago project marked by years of fits and starts.
"But we've got to see what it's going to end up being at the end of the day," he said.
"We've been talking to all the prior owners for seven, eight years. It has gone from one developer to another. When we understand the plan of what they're doing and who they'll have in there, we'll decide whether it's appropriate to put a store there. Then you've got to decide if the space and rents work."
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Crate & Barrel eyes Canada, Block 37 for new stores
BECKY YERAK
Published May 17, 2005
More than 40 years after opening the first of his 140 stores, Gordon Segal is looking to expand his Crate & Barrel chain north of the border.
The co-founder and chief executive officer of the Northbrook-based home furnishings chain recently said that his private company is considering opening stores in Canada.
"We're looking at Toronto and Vancouver," Segal said at the May 6 opening of a Crate & Barrel in Geneva, his 140th store. "Those will probably be our first foreign markets. We have some locations we're working on, though they may never come to pass. We're looking at early '07 to open."
Segal also said that he's "talking to" the developers of Block 37, the proposed mixed-use Chicago project marked by years of fits and starts.
"But we've got to see what it's going to end up being at the end of the day," he said.
"We've been talking to all the prior owners for seven, eight years. It has gone from one developer to another. When we understand the plan of what they're doing and who they'll have in there, we'll decide whether it's appropriate to put a store there. Then you've got to decide if the space and rents work."