Oct 22, 2013, 7:13am HST
Staff Pacific Business News
The Howard Hughes Corp. said it has finished building a new two-story building at the Ward Village Shops in Honolulu’s Kakaako neighborhood, in time for Nordstrom Rack and Pier 1 Imports to open next month.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports Pier 1, which closed its old store down the street on Oct. 8, will open its new 9,800-square-foot store on Nov. 1, while Nordstrom Rack will close its existing store behind the Ward Entertainment Center on Nov. 9 and reopen in the new 45,000-square-foot space on Nov. 14.
The two stores, which will be located adjacent to the anchor T.J. Maxx store at Ward, are part of Dallas-based Howard Hughes Corp.’s (NYSE: HHC) Ward Master Plan. A condo tower is planned for the former Pier 1 site at the corner of Auahi and Kamakee streets.
Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE: JWN) opened the off-price Nordstrom Rack store in 2000 and opened its first full-line department store in Hawaii at Ala Moana Center in 2008.
Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR) has two other stores on Oahu, in Kailua and Pearl City, and one store on Maui and one on the Big Island.