One little detail that I haven't seen elsewhere is the floor numbers set into the exit floor of the escalators. I'm sure that's not
that uncommon, but I still think it's neat! Surrounding that, though, I think many of you will be rather disappointed by the flooring choice here -- plain polished concrete flooring. They did a fairly good job of it, but it still looks way out of place for an upscale department store... I've seen worse department store flooring, but only in massively run down stores, not a store on Nordstrom's level that had just gone through a major remodel.
Eww, what a terrible flooring choice by Nordstrom. A store like Nordstrom should have real wood, marble, or something like that. Instead, they have what Walmart and Home Depot have. What a shame. That concrete actually looks like the patchy concrete at my local JCPenney. Why Penny's partially left that floor tiled and left tile scarred concrete in other places does not make sense to me.
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But, yeah, we're comparing a Nordstrom to a JCPenney! Nordstrom ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Yeah, JCPenney is definitely one of the stores I was thinking of with the "massively run-down" comment! I've seen some pretty bad Macy's too. The JCPenney in Southcenter looks at least as bad as the one in your link, and it's sad because that store is actually pretty successful...
DeleteThe local JCPenney, the same one that I posted above, looks really sad on the outside as well. The JCPenney there at Willowbrook Mall opened in 1992, a little more than a decade after the rest of the mall was built, but they have maintained the building so poorly that it actually looks older and more run-down than the other anchors like the Sears (which has recently re-opened as a Sears Hometown store). Either the walls are very dirty or the paint is so peeled that it's showing the concrete cinder blocks. It's quite sad looking and it's looked this way for at least five years now, but it's steadily getting worse and worse. Link: https://goo.gl/maps/g5q64xh1vs6Vu1tx5
DeleteOne of the newer anchors at Willowbrook Mall is actually a Nordstrom Rack, but of course, I have lesser standards for a Nordstrom Rack than I do for a full Nordstorm.
Here's a new Google Streetview of the Sears Hometown Store. The Sears employee is waiving at the Streetview camera! Link: https://goo.gl/maps/7b2Ui9XT9KN6xjXM9
Ouch, that looks terrible! I have quite low expectations for JCPenney these days, but that's bad even by their standards. That Sears, on the other hand, looks pretty nice, at least on the outside.
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