New Osaka Shinsaibashi Parco building to house H&M
Fashion building operator Parco said it will demolish the closed Shinsaibashi Parco building in Osaka to make way for a new five-floor building occupied entirely by H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, a Swedish casual wear chain.
Image of new H&M store in Shinsaibashi
The new H&M store will be one of the chain’s biggest in Japan, with around 3,000 square meters of sales floor space, according to the Japanese unit of the Stockholm-based company.
Shinsaibashi Parco
The new building, tentatively called Shinsaibashi Zero Gate, is planned to open in the spring of 2013 and will have a total floor space of 5,500 sq. meters, about half that of the old building closed in September 2011, according to Parco.
H&M Ebisubashi store
In Osaka, H&M currently operates two outlets.H&M Ebisubashi store is located only 700 meters away from Shinsaibashi Parco building. H&M will do operate both two stores.
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