E-Commerce Brand Parachute Home Opening First NYC Store in Soho
By Rey Mashayekhi March 29, 2018 5:44 pm
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Online linens brand Parachute Home is opening its first brick-and-mortar store in New York City at 129 Grand Street in Soho, Commercial Observer has learned.
Parachute Home is taking the ground-floor retail space at the five-story residential condominium building at the southwest corner of Grand and Crosby Streets, according to sources with knowledge of the transaction. The company signed a two-year deal, with an option for an additional five-year term.
The bedding and bath goods retailer will occupy 1,140 square feet of street-level space and an additional 900 square feet of basement space, for a total of 2,040 square feet. Parachute Home recently took possession of the location and has started work on its buildout with a view to opening in May, sources said.
Asking rent in the off-market transaction was not immediately clear. Matthew Girard of Sinvin Real Estate represented Parachute Home, while Twenty Nine Great Jones Street Corp., the owner of the retail condo unit, had no broker.
The store at 129 Grand Street will be Parachute Home’s first location in the city. The e-commerce brand, founded in 2013, has two other physical stores nationally: a showroom attached to its Venice, Calif., corporate headquarters and another outpost in Portland, Ore.
In a statement, Sinvin said Parachute Home “joins the list of e-commerce brands that understand the symbiotic relationship between brick-and-mortar and online retailing,” adding that the brand “identified Soho as the perfect landing place” for its first New York City store. The retail space at 129 Grand Street features “15-foot pressed-tin ceilings, cast iron columns and oversized display windows,” Sinvin added.
Representatives for Parachute Home did not immediately return a request for comment. The landlord could not immediately be reached.
