Mysterious Surprise Moves:Miguelina Bolts From Bleecker Street
October 30, 2008
Your guess is as good as ours as to why contemporary boutique Miguelina has suddenly shuttered its Bleecker Street boutique. Our friends at RACKED tell us that the store will be relocating East to Cooper Square in a few weeks, but we have to wonder if the East Village is really more conducive to business than the small but apparently quite lucrative Bleecker Street corridor?
Our other question is, Who bought out their lease? The store only opened a scant year and a half ago, so it's unlikely that they were facing a rent hike. Were they anticipating a downturn in business that would have made the current rent unmanageable, or did some other store with deeper pockets come along and make them an offer for the corner store that they couldn't refuse?
We have nothing against Cooper Square, but we are sure the rent will be lower, but Miguelina will be losing the high profile and prestige that comes along with Bleecker.
In addition, à propos of nothing, someone, (apparently not the folks at Miguelina) placed a mysterious and vulgar note directed at the actress and comedienne Amy Sedaris in the window of the vacated store.
What this note means for Sedaris (whom we adore), we have no idea, but it just adds to the strange mystery of the whole story.
Relocations: Miguelina Moves, Sedaris Enemy Takes Advantage of Empty Windows (RACKED)
Previously, Miguelina's Bleecker Bow
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