Skechers opened a high-profile flagship store in the heart of San Francisco's premier shopping area – just off the Powell and Market streets' cable car stop and bordering Union Square. The three-floor Skechers location is also the Company's largest concept store at 7,500 square feet. The store features 800 unique styles and is capable of housing 20,000 units of footwear and apparel.
Located in a historic building on the corner of Powell and O'Farrell streets, Skechers' new store design both reflects the company's image as well as the Art Deco architecture of the building, which was constructed in 1933. The store features modern curved fixtures, two 12-foot by 4-foot LED screens, seven plasma screens, thermo clear panels on the 16-foot ceiling, and a three-dimensional “super block wall” constructed from Styrofoam and plaster. Skechers also restored the original green terra cotta tiles and copper pipes on the upper exterior walls surrounding 18-foot bay windows and the original black granite at the street level.
“Our new Powell Street flagship store has everything we require in a retail location and more,” began Michael Greenberg, Skechers president. “It is in one of the premier tourist and shopping locations in San Francisco with tens of millions of visitors annually. It is in an unbelievably beautiful building that both reflects the brand's image and furthers its reputation. The consumers that shop for our footwear and apparel in this store will be in for an incredible experience.”
Skechers other flagship stores are in New York's Times Square, Los Angeles' Hollywood & Highland and Universal City Walk, Toronto, London, Paris, and Shanghai. Skechers currently owns and operates more than 215 retail stores in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia.
