Sizing up Circuit City's space

August 25, 2009 04:45PM
The former Circuit City space in Union Square

From the August issue: Finding new tenants for many of Circuit City's old stores is proving to be a challenge for the brokers and landlords who are marketing sites in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

After filing for bankruptcy at the end of last year, the electronics giant announced in January that it was going out of business, and by March it had shuttered all 567 of its stores nationwide, including nearly a dozen in New York.

Now, five months after that shutdown, four sites in Manhattan and three in Brooklyn remain vacant.

The spaces formerly occupied by Circuit City, which entered the New York market in 1997 and was one of a number of national mega-retailers to go belly up this year, are something of a case study of the New York City retail market. 
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