H&M Coming to the Tacoma Mall
The Tacoma Mall announced today via their Twitter account that H&M will be opening in the mall in time for the holiday season. The Tacoma H&M will be 20,000 square feet and located next to the new Sephora store that is under construction. It will be the first store in the South Sound and second largest store in the Puget Sound region. H&M currently has stores in Southcenter, Downtown Seattle & U-Village. Sweden based H&M has around 2,000 stores in 35 countries and is known for affordable fashion for men, women & children. It was not reported how many jobs the new Tacoma H&M store would create.
E.E. Robbins Coming to Tacoma
E.E. Robbins The Enagament Ring Store is coming to Tacoma. They will be located in the former Quality Sewing & Vacuum store in Metro Plaza (across South 37th Street from Costco). They will be relocating their Southcenter store in Tukwila, WA to Tacoma due to traffic congestion/problems around the Southcenter store. They expect to be open in early February 2009.
I am told by the man himself Emerson Robbins (yes he sounds the same on the phone as in the commercials) that E.E. Robbins is a local family owned business. They don’t do the sales scheme like other jewelry stores, you know the 40% off 3 days a week, 25% off 3 days a week, and regular price one day a week. Every manager of the store becomes a partner in ownership. Two of the managers are buyers for the company and every year they go overseas to hand pick their diamonds.
E. E. Robbins also has store in Belltown and Bellevue.
E.E. Robbins
2128 South 37th Street
Tacoma, WA 98409
