"A lot of boutique-type stores have had to close and are being replaced by stores like Coach and Ferragamo".
Twelve miles east at Woodbury Village, the Hauppauge-based Staller Assowneres, the owner, is subdividing a 31,000-square-foot store into about 10 boutique-type shops.
I'm a big believer in Midtown and of buying big discounts for replacement costs, particularly for trophy buildings like 1330, with its Central Park views, great location, boutique-type floors, great renovation.
The band and the hotel are a good match because the Rubens "are not your old-school, rock 'n' roll hell-raisers in hotels," he adds, laughing, and are "low key" enough for "a tasteful, interesting, Hollywood boutique-type hotel".
"Mass-market brands have been forced to employ more technically advanced ingredient technologies in their products, particularly when trying to match the performance of a heavily patented boutique-type product," said Jim Hammer, a chemist at Pharmasol Corporation in Easton, Mass.
Such private arrangements occupy a large portion of Abercrombie's business, but well-off travelers who want to design the trip experience are also turning to boutique-type services like the NextGreatPlace and Quintess Beyond for locations, hotels and service that have been screened and approved in advance.
Clearly, over the last 6 months, we've seen a number of Wall Street executives that have been either displaced or on their own accord have decided to move to more boutique-type firms.
From a non-profit concert to a boutique sale, each type of business must identify what they can give you that no one else can.
The only ones that are hanging in there, even prospering, belong to a particular type: boutiques that offer a tidied-up version of the crate-digging experience, without the dust and the graft, the knees-bent flicking through musty cardboard boxes in roach-infested basements.
