During a recent trip to Dallas, Carolyn Goldman’s brother called her from a Neiman Marcus department store.
“You carry all these brands!” he told his sister, who owns Uptown Kids in the Classen Curve shopping center at Classen and NW Grand.
She does — from fashionable clothes for babies and toddlers by Diesel, Little Marc Jacobs and Appaman to the ultracool Orbit Baby stroller system, seen with countless celebrity parents.
And her store is right here in Oklahoma City.
“You don’t have to go to Dallas to go shopping,” she said. “You don’t have to go out of state or buy online. You can come shop locally.”
Though retailers started opening in Classen Curve back in 2009, the swanky pedestrian-friendly shopping center seemed to hit its stride last year, with the addition of several new stores and a burst of traffic — thanks to the new Whole Foods Market across the street.
Classen Curve, as well as its sister shopping center, The Triangle at Classen Curve, which houses Whole Foods and Anthropologie, are developed by Chesapeake Energy Corp. The retail centers have attracted the hottest eateries and new retail concepts as well as old favorites.
Some highlights
•Six new tenants opened in Classen Curve in 2011, including Steven Giles men’s clothing store, Carwin’s Shave Shop, design firm Winter House Interiors, Black Optical eyewear, BD Home furniture store and Green Goodies cupcakes. Steven Giles and Green Goodies relocated from Nichols Hills locations, and Winter House Interiors moved from Northpark Mall.
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