H said:I have seen one in ATL and MIA where Target is on the second floor. In MIA Best Buys & Micheals is on the first and in the ATL I think Galyans (sp?) sports store is on the first.
Gedunker said:Target recently expanded the store here to about 108,000 sq. ft. from 80,000. Their real estate people considered going two stories because of site limitations, but they chose to stay one-storey. So, yeah, they do have a two-storey model, but I think it is an exception rather than anything they prefer to do.
BTW: Target is just a whole lot easier to deal with than other big boxes, IMO.
Larry Felton Johnson said:Actually the Target covers both stories at the Lenox area store. Galyan's is next to them connected by the parking deck. They have both elevators and escalators. This isn't the first Big Box in Atlanta to go to two stories. The Kmart at Broadview/Lindbergh Plaza had a similar configuration.
Seabishop said:How do they handle shopping carts? Are the elevators extra large? The only 2 story department store with shopping carts I've seen was the country's first discount department store in an old mill. An employee would put your carriage on a conveyor belt up to the second floor while you took the stairs.
Seabishop said:How do they handle shopping carts? Are the elevators extra large? The only 2 story department store with shopping carts I've seen was the country's first discount department store in an old mill. An employee would put your carriage on a conveyor belt up to the second floor while you took the stairs.
solarstar said:There's a 2-story Target in New Orleans (Jefferson Parish, actually). They have a cart escalator where you put the cart on it and then you ride on a "people" escalator next to it. The elevators are also extra large - you could probably put 3 carts in it lengthwise and widthwise easily. The Target is connected to a multi-story parking garage and a shopping mall, but it appears to be an afterthought of the mall itself.
Masswich said:IKEA's are always two stories (I think there are a couple that are 3) but that partially because they are so huge that the cost of going up to a second (half) story is worth it vs. the cost of land.
Also, IKEA has started to do a lot of structured parking, I think for the same reason. When your store is 10 acres alone, I guess it pays to stack it.
jresta said:My grocery store has elevators because it has two levels of parking above it. Each of the two elevators can comfortably handle 4 shopping carts.
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salomondesignboarder said:Wow its nice to see that Whole Foods can bend over for the greater good of design. It seems that they are able to do a two story development with non-surface parking. Last Summer when I worked for the City of Arlington Heights, Illinois (northwest suburb of Chicago); Whole Foods was looking to move into a square block of downtown. One of the last blocks to be "underdeveloped" as the planning office would say. We wanted to see them do either underground or a hybrid elevated parking or above store parking design. They were so insistent upon the fact that knowbody would shop there because it was two stories or that parking and gettting your buggy to your car would be difficult. Wonder if they are thinking differently now and have moved into downtown Arlington Heights? How old is the store in your picture?
salomondesignboarder said:Wow its nice to see that Whole Foods can bend over for the greater good of design. It seems that they are able to do a two story development with non-surface parking. Last Summer when I worked for the City of Arlington Heights, Illinois (northwest suburb of Chicago); Whole Foods was looking to move into a square block of downtown. One of the last blocks to be "underdeveloped" as the planning office would say. We wanted to see them do either underground or a hybrid elevated parking or above store parking design. They were so insistent upon the fact that knowbody would shop there because it was two stories or that parking and gettting your buggy to your car would be difficult. Wonder if they are thinking differently now and have moved into downtown Arlington Heights? How old is the store in your picture?
loub3000 said:My local IKEA store is one-story, and uses up about a dozen city-sized street blocks East-West, four or five North-South.