Retail
December 17, 2018
Saks Fifth Avenue's women's store in Brookfield Place in downtown New York is set to close Jan. 5. Image credit: Saks
By Staff reports
In yet another sign of the tumult in retail and only two years after its opening, Saks Fifth Avenue will close its 86,000-square-foot department store for women in the swanky Lower Manhattan Brookfield Place mall.
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