Walk Broadway from Houston down to Broome this July and the block reads differently than it did in December. The Nike flagship is gone. Adidas has moved. A new IKEA is coming in behind a construction hoarding at the corner of Spring. If you live here, this is the summer the retail spine of your neighborhood is being physically reassigned, and the restaurants and galleries are quietly filling in the seams while the big boxes shuffle.
This isn't the usual churn. It's a coordinated reshuffling of anchors that had been fixed for a decade, and it changes what your Saturday looks like between Prince and Grand.
The 529 Broadway Domino
The single most consequential change on the corridor started with one lease.
