Additionally, midprice chains such as Novotel, Holiday Inn Express and others have opened new hotels close to the financial district.
From upscale emporiums to midprice chains, retailers are engaged in a heated competition to make the most durable, fashionable shopping bags.
For example, at Applebee's, one of the nation's largest midprice chains with more than 2,000 restaurants, sales at restaurants open at least 18 months slumped every quarter from mid-2008 theough the middle of 2010.
Imagine if "Sex and the City" had given us women with meat on their bones, clothes from midprice chains found on a High Street, mothers and fathers and uncles who turned up and weighed in.
Indeed, one midprice chain that everyone thought was dead and buried — Bennigan's — is now coming back from the crypt.
In Naples, Irwin Novack in January opened the 18th outlet of Kane's Furniture, a midprice chain, adding 50 jobs.
NANOOK Aritzia, a midprice chain from north of the border, has joined H & M (Sweden), Zara (Spain) and Uniqlo (Japan) in SoHo.
[Page C1.] Saks to Cut Managers and Sell a Midprice Chain Struggling to keep pace with its luxury rivals, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue moved to thin out its management team and put the last of its midprice department store chains up for sale.
The idea of an identifiably Canadian style, other than the red-coated Mounties, is not significantly advanced by the recent arrival in SoHo of Aritzia, a popular midprice chain that started in Vancouver.
"If they have been staying at upper-tier hotels, they may consider more midtier properties," said Ms. Campbell, adding that midpriced chains were becoming more amenable to business travelers' needs.
