North Carolina’s newest Nordstrom Rack opens soon, and it’s in the Triangle.
The store will take a 25,000-square-foot space in Morrisville’s Park West Village. The building previously housed Buy Buy Baby, a baby-focused retailer owned by the parent company of Bed Bath & Beyond.
“We’re very excited about bringing the Nordstrom brand, just because it’s about delivering great brands at great prices,” Shannon Dixon, the executive vice president of Development & Leasing for Casto Southeast Realty Services, told The News & Observer in a phone interview. Casto Southeast Realty Services owns and manages Park West Village.
Nordstrom Rack offers apparel, accessories, beauty items, home decor and shoes from many brands also sold at Nordstrom, but at prices up to 70% off.
Here’s what to know about the store opening.
The location at 3121 Market Center Drive will open at 9 a.m. Thursday, April 10.
This is the third Nordstrom Rack to open in the Triangle. The most recent opening was at Raleigh’s Triangle Town Place in October, and there’s another store in Renaissance Center in Durham, off Fayetteville Road near I-40.
The only Nordstrom in the Triangle is at Durham’s The Streets at Southpoint mall. Elsewhere in North Carolina, Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack locations are spread across Charlotte, Matthews and Mooresville.
Dutch Bros, a coffee chain headquartered in Oregon, is expanding to North Carolina and will open one of its first stores in the state at Park West Village in Morrisville. (At least one other location is planned for Charlotte, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.) No opening date for the Morrisville shop has been announced.
Talks are underway with some potential new restaurant and small retail tenants for Park West Village, Dixon said, and “announcements will be forthcoming.”
“They’ll be different from anything else that we currently have out there,” she said. “We really try to not duplicate uses.”
The shopping center currently houses large retailers including Trader Joe’s, Target and HomeGoods, along with national and locally owned chain restaurants such as Chipotle Mexican Grill, Cava and Ruckus Pizza.
“From the original development of Park West, we’ve really been trying to create an environment where you can go and experience it all,” Dixon said.
The Town of Morrisville has approved plans to add residential units to the Park West Village property, but Casto is still working on the plans, Dixon said. No timeline for construction has been announced.
“Our vision is to enhance and update the entertainment and retail options, complementing them with additional housing, and reinvigorating the community’s experience,” Dixon said in a previous statement.
Previously submitted plans call for the demolition of the B&B Theatre and two commercial buildings, one of which is currently occupied by Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar and the dessert shop Kilwin’s.
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