Neiman To Hit Long Island at Tanger Center

HEMPSTEAD, NY-Neiman Marcus is entering Long Island in the form of a 32,000-sf outlet center in Deer Park. The 37-unit luxury chain’s first store in this part of suburban New York City will anchor Tanger Factory Outlet Center’s 800,000-sf Deer Park development, which recently broke ground and is scheduled to open next summer.

“Long Island is one of the most under-retailed areas of the country,” said Steven Tanger, the Greensboro, NC-based developer’s president and chief operating officer, speaking here at Hofstra University during a luncheon put on by the school’s Institute of Real Estate. The area has only 7.4 sf of retail per resident compared to the 21.3 sf in the rest of the US, he says.

The Deer Park center is Tanger’s second on Long Island. The first is the 729,315-sf outlet mall in Riverhead that the firm opened in 1997. The company owns 35 centers across the country.