“hi downtown” will be greeted by many downtown residents and workers with a grand opening on Oct 14, 2012
Can you believe it’s finally happening? The long-awaited City Target, a game-changing retailer for both residents and workers downtown, will be officially open next Sunday the 14th. For years, residents have had to trek outside downtown to get basic (household) items that many take for granted. Now, all the goodies we’re familiar with in Target’s vast product selection will be available to Downtown LA residents and workers in about a week.
In addition to all the excitement surrounding the opening of City Target, I was also excited to find out a few other new names have joined the roster at FIGat7th including Sprinkles Cupcakes and The Melt from San Francisco (this will be their fifth location and the only one outside the SF Bay Area).
According to SVP of Brookfield, Bert Dezzutti, who was gracious enough to give us a tour of FIGat7th today, there will be a total of about 21 eateries at FIGat7th. About 17 of them will be located on the lower level situated in an upscale food court concept called Taste. Some of them we have covered in previous posts including: Mendocino Farms, Juicy Lucy, Loteria Grill, Oleego, Indus by Saffron, and George’s Greek Cafe.
I asked Dezzutti if he would give us a hint as to what other retailers are coming to FIGat7th, and although he couldn’t state any names in particular, he mentioned that some exciting apparel and electronics retailers are close to finalizing leases. What those businesses are should be revealed toward the end of the year. (My biggest wish would be for a Uniqlo store.) So the excitement continues at FIGat7th as we wait to learn what other goodies are in store for us.
FIGat7th will be opening next week when City Target opens on Sunday Oct 14, 2012
The redesigned FIGat7th has a new grand staircase with direct access into the shopping center
I like it: “Shop Downtown LA!”
Sprinkles Cupcakes (seen in brown and pink) will be going into the middle level adjacent to the grand staircase
A view of Taste (the lower food level) with its bright orange umbrellas
Mendocino Farms future flagship location
New eateries will surround the dining court with plenty of seating
The indoor dining court with its modern and clean design
A view outside from within the dining court
A peek inside City Target
The new “City logo” greets future Target shoppers at the front entrance
A “City Love” section in City Target will feature products specific to Los Angeles
Soon these cash registers will be busy with “pent up” downtown transactions
The spotlight on eateries coming to FIGat7th
Sprinkles Cupcakes
The Melt (from San Francisco)
A closer read describing The Melt from San Francisco
Oleego by Parks BBQ
Loteria Grill
Juicy Lucy Burgers and Mendocino Farms
Indus by Saffron and George’s Greek Cafe
We’ve been making due with Big Lots and Fallas for the past four years, so I’m very excited!
Wow! Sprinkles, nom nom nom!
I am so freakin’ excited, can’t wait to see it in person on the 14th!
No mention of parking? How is it?
New Isn’t Always Better
If you have the opportunity to visit the new Target on 7th and Figueroa, DON’T BOTHER!
It hails itself as the local downtown Target.
But downtown L.A. is for the most part, a biking community and this Target is biking unfriendly.
From the moment you arrive and try to lock your bike up, you are accosted by the security forces that surround the store. They tell you to walk a block away and park your bike on the back 40.
Well…there are about five or so bike racks in the front, about midway down the block and safely away from the vision of anyone going into the store; but they are all taken.
Product Selection
Then, once you enter, it is questionable if they will have what every single other Target store stocks. I went there for two things. Two things most Target stores have entire aisles dedicated to…Christmas lights and perfume. It had neither one. What it did have was a “seasonal section” with a few Halloween lights and too many costumes. It had no perfume section at all.
Another thing it had was a long line that was controlled by Target employees who guided you to the cash register they felt was appropriate. What it did not have was a cash register for those with “less than fifteen items, or even less than five items.”
The experience was not a pleasant one, from the homeless wench with no ass, telling my fiancee to “kiss her rear end” after he asked her not to push her cart onto his heels, again and again; to the crowds of entire families stopped in the middle of aisles, blocking them. My next visit to Target will be in Glendale, a MUCH better experience, even though I live downtown!
There’s a parking structure directly behind the center that will serve it just as it did prior to the renovation. It’s also adjacent to the 7th & Metro subway station for those using transit.
Wow!!!! PLEASE take me on a tour with you next time! ;D
Uniqlo?!?!?! REALLY?!?!? That would be awesome!!!!
Thanks for the “sneak peek”!
Thanks for the report! Looks like there’s lots of variety! Will any of these casual food places be open at night?
Gah! So exciting! So much energy going on downtown!
This is great news, at long last. I can’t wait to hear what other retail will be opening here.
Sprinkles?! *happy dance*
Saddle up! Move’um out! Time to shop!
Love the fact that a Target is finally coming to DTLA, but the FIGat7th mall is still relatively F*gly and mundane-looking. I hope what’s pictured is not the finished product because it needs some more plants and a better/more inviting color scheme!
This is so exciting! With any luck or hope, Macy’s Plaza will be next. Making it a much more beautiful building and more pedestrian friendly will definetly activate the streets and do so much good, especially in that location! Right now, all we can do is hope. But Target being open is in itself so exciting! I can’t wait to see all the other spaces fill up.