Bob’s Discount Furniture is the newest retailer to come to the Sky View Center

Sky View Center, the 800,000-square foot shopping center at Sky View Parc, located at College Point Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens, has welcomed its newest retailer, Bob’s Discount Furniture. The new store marks the chain’s 38th location. Named the 2008 Furniture Retailer of the Year, Bob’s joins other retailers at Sky View Center, including
already opened BJ’s Wholesale Club and Best Buy, as well as soon-to-open Target, Marshall’s, Applebee’s, Old Navy, Chuck E. Cheese, Sky View Foods Supermarket, and Bed, Bath and Beyond. Sky View Center is more than 70 percent leased and will open in phases with the entire Center expected to be open in early 2011. TRD

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A number of regional, national and international retailers are set to open first outposts in New York City. Last week, Costco, the largest membership warehouse club in the world, opened its first location in Manhattan in the 500,000-square-foot East River Plaza. Target will open its first Manhattan store in the same plaza next year. Best Buy, Marshalls and New York City’s first Bob’s Discount Furniture will join them. Bob’s has 35 stores throughout New York, New Jersey and New England. In the fall it opened its newest location in Carle Place, LI. [more]