AmericasMart Steps-Up Building Two Expansion
The category expansion accelerates a growth curve that has produced a full home furnishings product mix housed throughout AmericasMart Building One, on Home floors in Building Two, and in 10 complementary temporary categories.
At full occupancy—which will follow the Building Two West Wing opening—AmericasMart One will house 21 contiguous showroom floors of home furnishings product, including furniture in traditional, contemporary and high-design styling and the nation’s largest single collection of area rugs.
The home product mix growth comes in tandem with the arrival of Building Two West Wing—a landmark 1.5 million-square-foot expansion housing trade show exhibit halls and permanent showrooms.
With the Building Two West Wing completion, the facility will enclose more than 7.7 million square feet of space housing the world’s largest single product collection.
The structure, sited adjacent to and fully integrated with AmericasMart Two, spans more than 12 floors in a configuration that integrates exhibit halls and permanent showrooms for maximum ease of access. Building Two West Wing floors one through four offer temporary exhibit halls accommodating AmericasMart’s High Design collection, an expanded gourmet products collection, an expanded garden products collection, plus new categories in development for 2009 introduction. The relocation of existing collections paves the way for growth in numerous existing temporary categories.
Floor six will house new and expanded General Gift showrooms in extension of AmericasMart Two’s six-floor General Gift category.
Floor seven is the new home for the Gourmet Gallery/Gift & Resort, with floor eight housing Gourmet product, plus housewares, in a casually elegant environment reminiscent of an outdoor marketplace/streetscape. Floor eight Gourmet and housewares showroom spaces will surround a new state-of-the-art, real-time demonstration kitchen for broadcast-television-quality culinary demonstrations and events.
Floors nine and 10 will become the new home to AmericasMart’s Living.
Building Two West Wing is on schedule for 2008 occupancy and a January 2009 Market opening.