Italian tableware will be sold downstairs.
The tote bag bearing his design sold downstairs, for $12.95.
In Gowanus, the company grows herbs and produce -- it specialized in basil -- and some of it is sold downstairs at Whole Foods, with a distribution distance of one single staircase.
The Ford dealership sells cars downstairs and welcomes birds on the second floor.
One part of the downstairs selling floor is covered in unpainted green plasterboard, decorated with white spackling over the joints and nails.
The most expensive transaction last year cited in the study was the $19 million paid for a full-floor, 5,500-square-foot prewar apartment on Fifth Avenue in the 70's that was sold to a downstairs neighbor who wanted to turn the combined apartments into a duplex.
The shop will be much bigger than uptown and, with a full kitchen downstairs, will sell cakes and pastries in addition to macarons and chocolates imported from France.
Books too valuable to give away are sold in a bookstore downstairs, run by a former librarian named Kathy Lisiewski.
(The apartment downstairs had sold a year earlier for the $449,000 asking price).
Some breads will be sold frozen in the downstairs market so that home cooks can finish the baking.
