The dust has started to settle after the brisk holiday shopping season. In recent days ToNeTo Atlanta has reported on several restaurant closures with news now that two national retailers have quietly exited Lenox Square in Buckhead.
It's unclear when exactly the store closed but it was still open as of the end of the year but was stripped of all logos and empty when we visited the mall Tuesday afternoon. The Huntington Beach, California-based business launched its retail store division in 2023 with the opening of a shop at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, New York. A second store followed soon after at Costa Mesa Plaza in Costa Mesa, California. According to the company's website, both stores have also closed while one at Fashion Valley in San Diego remains open.
In addition to TYR, Moose Knuckles, a Montreal-based outerwear brand, also closed their store at the upscale Buckhead mall. Moose Knuckles, yes, that's really their name, opened its Lenox Square store November 18, 2022, marking what was then the brand's 11th in the U.S. The roughly 3,000 square foot store was also located on the mall's main level between Savage X Fenty and UNTUCKit.
The store officially closed Sunday, according to an employee at Moose Knuckles, with the store having offered 50% off merchandise ahead of the closure.
Launched in 2008, Moose Knuckles is seen by many as the chief rival of the better-known Canada Goose, another popular luxury outwear business that got its start in Toronto in 1957 and opened their own store at Phipps Plaza in September 2023.
Moose Knuckles hired Tokyo-based architectural firm Curiosity, known for its diverse portfolio of work for luxury labels including Versace, Fendi, Berluti, Dolce & Gabbana and Tag Heuer, to design the Lenox Square store. The company spent an estimated $750,000 building out the space which was undoubtedly meant to be more than a two year stay.
The Moose Knuckles website is incredibly difficult to navigate but it appears the company continues to operate at least one U.S. full-line store in Soho, New York as well as outlets at Woodbury Common and Fashion Outlets of Chicago.
TYR and Moose Knuckles have both been removed from the Lenox Square website and from their own websites but are still marked as "open" via their Google listings.
The closures of TYR and Moose Knuckles come on the heels of the closure at Bally at Phipps Plaza in December and the closures of eateries Azucar Cuban, Ponko Chicken, Sugar Daddy Cookies, and Garrett Popcorn Shops at Lenox Square in recent months.
Are you as surprised as we were that someone thought opening a TYR store at Lenox Square was a good idea? Did you ever visit the Moose Knuckles store? What do you think should open in place of two vacancies at Lenox Square?
Please share your thoughts below.
21 comments:
I know they are trying to compete with Canada Goose, and maybe their brand name means something different to Gen Z, but in my day “Moose Knuckle” was the male equivalent of camel toe.
Name sounds more like a local competitor to Swinging Richard’s or if restaurant chain Twin Peaks had an all-male server staff spin off.
Not sure if it was covered here, but Urban Outfitters at Lenox is also closing. Maybe catering to drug dealers and OF models wasn't the best business decision.
Any updates on Lenox/Phipps upcoming openings? Primarily- do you know when Loewe is opening??
The yoo-noe-wats made Lennox a no-go zone! Who wants to risk danger, harassment, and disgust in that mess??? This is fact and you all know it!
How long can Louis Vuitton and Popeyes support an entire mall?
Winter outerwear doesn't do as well in the south as it does in the North.
Supposed to be March
I know the cops there suck, I agree that's all they do is harass and wall around
Here we go with this again. Please make your way to Facebook and say it with your whole chest please. Thanks.
interesting to see moose knuckles close since they were very much marketed towards the average lenox customer... I believe Simon, the mall's owner, also invested in them as well
Is there not a Timberland's in the mall?
Exactly who is “the average Lenox customer”?
A French Canadian who enjoys winter sports, obviously.
Great updates, Eli! Both TYR and Moose Knuckles were strange additions to me. Moose Knuckles mainly because you only need a coat like that in Atlanta like 1-2 days here and that’s a stretch some winters!
I decided to stop at Lenox Square yesterday, the last time I was in that mall was maybe 2018 or 2019, Neiman Marcus is a disaster, they put a huge bar serving cocktails in the middle of the mens department and most of the clothing is gone from the center of the department?!??!, in Bloomingdale's it was very sparse, with little to choose from. As far as the people shopping there, it was a far cry from what it was in it's heyday (late 80s to very early 2000s), lots of sagging pants, gold teeth, mixed in with a few of the old buckhead betty's that are left, but they are slowly fading out of the picture. I definetly did not feel an "upscale" experience when I was there, not at all.
They should have a JCPenney. Need some regular stores
Oh dear! Better go shop at Sugarloaf Mills or Macon Mall then! My word, the mall changed since 1980? They should have kept it all the same since then, including being allowed to smoke in the mall and get a handy in the BR. I know it came be scary when everyone isn’t white and 68 years old. Poor poor baby.
Lenox Square has been taken over by ghetto thugs. Let’s call it what it is.
Is that because its “the truth?”
TYR is a niche sports brand makes some pretty cool stuff especially for CrossFit — as a CrossFitter I was pumped they opened and spent a few bucks in there - but was also confused why they thought it’d work here. I was bummed to see they closed, but like NoBull and Rogue they’ll be a digital brand only, which is fine. Their sale schemes were also strange,
Why no mention of the Auburn, Ga store 5 miles away???
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