Flamboyant owner Sir Philip Green isn’t about to change his strategy for Topshop’s U.S. debut. This peek inside Topshop Soho was telling: the store looked nowhere near complete. How, we wondered, would they be ready to open by November? Turns out, they won’t be. Sir Philip Green and Co. has moved the store’s opening date yet again…to March 2009. ‘This has been a logistical nightmare,’ Green said. The time it takes to get permits from the city is cited as one of the reasons for the massive delay; the building, at 478-486 Broadway, is landmarked. And though anyone could have predicted that the ambitious, 40,000-square-foot store would face some major hurdles, who thought they’d so wrongly guess how long it’d take to complete? March means missing those crucial holiday dollars; may we humbly suggest a Soho pop-up to tide the eager shopping crowds over?
