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Originally Posted by officedweller
Personally, I think a "store within a store" for The Bay and Bloomingdales would be better with a vertical split - maybe with Bloomingdales taking the area around the set of escalators at the northeast corner of the store (which covers 4 floors from Skytrain level to level 2).
That would give the store a grand main level (high ceiling) and allow separation of men's and women's departments.
It could even have its own front entrance from the street and liven up that stretch of Seymour.
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Good suggestion. It would be great to have high ceilings. However the one issue I see is 'The Room' is located on the 2nd floor of the Northeast corner of the store, and it's a unique luxury concept generally not addressed within current Bloomingdale's stores. 'The Room' carries some of the same designers as the 'Designer Paradox' department at Bloomingdale's, but Nicholas Mellamphy's 'The Room' addresses a different strategy with more "fashion pieces" and fewer shops-within-store.