April 09, 2012 -
Shopping Centers
According to Tishman Speyer, Free People, a women's clothing, shoes and accessories boutique, will be opening a new store at Rockefeller Center this spring. Free People signed a lease for 4,013 s/f on the ground floor of 600 Fifth Ave. (entrance on 49th St.), with an additional 3,024 s/f in the mezzanine. Anthropologie, the brand's sister company, also has a store in Rockefeller Center. Free People was represented in the transaction by Stephen Plourde of the McDevitt Co.
Tishman Speyer, the co-owner of Rockefeller Center, is committed to the preservation and restoration of Rockefeller Center and refurbished and reopened the Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center after a 20-year closure.
Each day an estimated 350,000 people walk through the Rockefeller Plaza complex, which is home to the most famous Christmas tree in the world.