Fashion Center BID relocates to expanded facility on W38th.The Fashion Center Business Improvement District has relocated to 209 West 38th Street, with a new 10,000 s/f facility. This larger space will allow the BID to meet the needs of the district and showcase up and coming new designers. The BID has experienced significant growth through its fourteen years of service and had outgrown its former location. The BID's fashion industry information services See Information Systems. and a showroom space for new, young designers on the ground floor will be included in the expanded space. The new office building is designed by Nicholas Tjartjalis Architect PC, who also is located in the Fashion District. Through a selection process, industry professionals who exhibit talent, but are not prepared to afford showroom space will be invited to utilize the space to exhibit their collections to the press and buyers. A street- level shadow-box window will be used for installations by local artists, other tenants, or fashion industry promotional displays. "The move into our new offices will allow the BID to expand its scope and reach within the Fashion District, "said Barbara Blair Randall, executive director. "It also will provide needed opportunities to designers and artists, and allow us to continue to serve the needs of this rapidly evolving neighborhood." The Fashion Center BID, a not-for-profit corporation A not-for-profit corporation is a corporation created by statute, government or judicial authority that is not intended to provide a profit to the owners or members. A corporation that is organized to provide profits to its owners or members is a for-profit corporation. , was established in 1993 to promote New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's apparel industry and to improve the quality of life and economic vitality of Manhattan's garment district The Garment District is a store in Cambridge, MA and is well known for its Dollar-A-Pound clothing store. The Garment District started out as an offshoot of Harbor Textiles, a textile company which produced wiping cloths for industry that began in the late 1940s. . Funded by the district's 450 property owners and over 5,000 businesses, The Fashion Center draws upon the talents of business, civic and government leaders to make the neighborhood clean and safe while strengthening local businesses. "The relocation illustrates the steady growth of the Fashion Center BID, and will greatly assist to transform the Fashion District into a destination neighborhood," said George S George, river, c.345 mi (560 km) long, rising in a lake on the Quebec-Labrador boundary, E Canada. It flows N through Indian Lake (125 sq mi/324 sq km) to Ungava Bay (an arm of Hudson Strait). . Kaufman, chairman and president. "The FCBID FCBID Fashion Center Business Improvement District (Manhattan, NY) has shifted its marketing and economic development efforts to support the diversification of our tenant base without losing the district's core spirit and identity as the capital of American fashion." The building is owned by Newmark Knight Frank, one of the largest property managers and leasing agents in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . |
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