Barneys New York Abandons NorthPark Center Post; What Does That Say About Dallas’ Rank As a Top Luxury Market?

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When Barneys New York came back to NorthPark Center in 2006, they made a huge splash with an equally splashy ad campaign. Folks were anxious to have the un-self-conscious luxury retailer back in Big D. It showed the rest of the world that our fair city was on our way back up.

While it appears that Dallas has one of the healthiest real estate markets in the country, and our state has no shortage of millionaires and billionaires, and yet, we’re losing our Barneys?

As Dallas Biz Journal reporter Steven Thompson notes, Barneys was acquired earlier this year by Perry Capital. Does the new owner have something to do with the two-story NorthPark anchor closing?

While NorthPark Center officials say something “exciting” is planned for that huge space, Barneys will be missed. Why do you think the store is closing?

Joanna England is the Executive Editor at CandysDirt.com and covers the North Texas housing market.

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  1. Stephen on October 8, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Their inventory wasn't terribly exciting and it was dead whenever I visited the store over the past year or two. I wondered how it stayed open.

  2. Stephen on October 8, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Their inventory wasn't terribly exciting and it was dead whenever I visited the store over the past year or two. I wondered how it stayed open.

  3. Karen Eubank on October 8, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    Same reason it closed the first time. There are just not enough people that fit their target demographic and lets' face it, we have Neimans. With Neiman's you have loyalty that goes back generations. People in Texas are loyal especially when it comes to retail!

  4. Karen Eubank on October 8, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    Same reason it closed the first time. There are just not enough people that fit their target demographic and lets' face it, we have Neimans. With Neiman's you have loyalty that goes back generations. People in Texas are loyal especially when it comes to retail!

  5. Peter Gentry on October 8, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    Everything in that store is designed for a fetus. Fetuses don't have Centurion cards. Size 12 matrons do!

  6. Peter Gentry on October 8, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    Everything in that store is designed for a fetus. Fetuses don't have Centurion cards. Size 12 matrons do!

  7. Chloe Ruddick on October 8, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    We have Stanley Korshak and Highland Park Village nuff said!

  8. Chloe Ruddick on October 8, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    We have Stanley Korshak and Highland Park Village nuff said!

  9. susan knape on October 8, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    I shop at Barneys twice a year – when I visit my daughter in NY. When I am spending real money on clothes I want the real thing, not the watered-down version that Barneys had here.

  10. susan knape on October 8, 2012 at 5:15 pm

    I shop at Barneys twice a year – when I visit my daughter in NY. When I am spending real money on clothes I want the real thing, not the watered-down version that Barneys had here.

  11. critic on October 8, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    Too cutting edge for mainstream Dallas clientele
    What will possibly occupy that space? Please no Cheesecake Factory.
    Likely the space will be divided into 4 spaces for more chain stores

  12. critic on October 8, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    Too cutting edge for mainstream Dallas clientele
    What will possibly occupy that space? Please no Cheesecake Factory.
    Likely the space will be divided into 4 spaces for more chain stores

  13. Wyman on October 9, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    LOL Peter

  14. Wyman on October 9, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    LOL Peter

  15. Alex on October 9, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    @Karen we DO have Neimans, except if your personal shopper sleeps with your husband, then you're screwed. I'm going to miss Barneys…although, their inventory was a liiittle limited.

  16. Alex on October 9, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    @Karen we DO have Neimans, except if your personal shopper sleeps with your husband, then you're screwed. I'm going to miss Barneys…although, their inventory was a liiittle limited.

  17. Melanie on October 9, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    Because they are not Neiman's…. Their inventory is too strange for most women…..

  18. Melanie on October 9, 2012 at 6:35 pm

    Because they are not Neiman's…. Their inventory is too strange for most women…..

  19. JasonM on October 11, 2012 at 12:43 am

    Dallas = square, corny, aesthetically challenged. Barney's is too good for Dallas.

  20. JasonM on October 11, 2012 at 12:43 am

    Dallas = square, corny, aesthetically challenged. Barney's is too good for Dallas.

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