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In the Huh?? department, Crain’s reports that Hobby Lobby, which I am just now learning is a massive crafts and home decor chain with more than 1000 stores across the country and a name that I don’t quite understand — is it lobby as in the foyer of an apartment building? or lobby as in influencing government? — is coming to the former Bed, Bath & Beyond space on Warren and Greenwich. The address is 270 Greenwich, but it is upstairs at 97 Warren.
Crain’s saw it in JLL’s Q2 retail report; JLL had it listed among the biggest leases of the quarter, but the company did not arrange the deal so they were unable to provide further info. Last I looked into this, when work was going on there in May, P. saw a listing on the leasing site that suggested a Nordstrom Rack was coming to the space. Nordstrom told me they were NOT, and here we are.
The entire two-story space is 236,000 square feet, including Whole Foods, which has 69,000 square feet downstairs. Crain’s says that Hobby Lobby has taken 70,000 square feet, leaving one of the two upstairs spaces up for grabs still. The leasing company’s listing says the space is 100 percent leased. Barnes & Noble left in January 2024; Bed Bath & Beyond left in March 2023.
Hobby Lobby has 27 stores in New York state, and when you look up the New York City locations, only one is listed — but under “S” for Staten Island. The company was founded in 1970 with a 300-square-foot store in Oklahoma City. It is the largest privately owned arts-and-crafts retailer in the world with over 46,000 employees and operating in forty-eight states, according to the company’s website, and the headquarters are still in Oklahoma City — in a 12-million-square-foot complex — plus offices in China.
Their affiliate company is Mardel Christian and Education Supply, which supplies books, Bibles, gifts, church and education supplies as well as homeschooling curriculum. In addition to offering exceptional selection and value, the company’s number one principle is “Honoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles.”
All Hobby Lobby stores are closed on Sunday.
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Hobby Lobby is the notorious company that filed a lawsuit back in 2013 that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in its favor in Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby. The ruling effectively undid a key piece of Obamacare that required employers to provide free contraception to female employees. The suit was decided 5-4, on “religious freedom” grounds.
The majority opinion was written by none other than Samuel Alito, who also wrote the majority opinion overturning Roe V Wade in 2022. Welcome to Tribeca, Hobby Lobby! Don’t think you will have many fans among our residents.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby re: Birth Control
This corporation doesn’t belong here
Horrible addition to the neighborhood if true – look up their treatment of female employees
In the devastating Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling, on June 30, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed certain bosses to block their employees’ access to birth control. The decision on this Supreme Court birth control case applied to more than half of all U.S. workers
What a blow to the community there
What a downgrade for TriBeCa – I understand money is money for the landlords, but this is a total miss
This company sells nothing but trinkets and cheap junk.
Landlords in our neighborhood and other ones truly don’t care. What a horrible disgusting addition to Tribeca.
I had to click through to the Crain’s article to see if the story is real.
Hopefully Tribecans know the backstory of the religious zealots behind this Christian craft store and will not spend their hard-earned money at this anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion storefront. For shame.
Well, this makes the closure of Barnes and Noble so much more confusing! I was sure that whole floor was going to be redone into something different.
so very weird for this place to be in Tribeca a ” religious” arts and crafts what? Don’t belong here. We needed something everyone could go to. How I miss Bed and Bath.