Is it time to rename Needham St. TJX Boulevard? With the newly opened Sierra Trading Post joining one-day-to-be-relocated Marshall’s, recently relocated TJMaxx, and Home Goods, Needham St. is now home to four of the five TJX US brands.
It’s a company town, folks.
TJX is a very successful company and community partner. Carol Meyrowitz, recently retired CEO still lives in West Newton , so perhaps its no wonder she likes a large presence in her ‘hood. In addition they are committed to serving the communities in which they do business by providing grants to non-profit organizations. I know they were a generous donor to the month long Newton Festival of the Arts. I personally love all their stores and am thrilled they are close by.
What’s the point of this post?
Are we supposed to be outraged that Needham Street is not populated by mom and pop bike stores owned by development-opposed proprietors who maintain their plots of land using only rakes and paper bags?
“Needham St. is now home to four of the five TJX US brands.”
What is the fifth brand and what do we need to do to land one on Needham Street?
Home Sense
Elmo,
It’s not all outrage and recrimination.
This is a post about something I found interesting. Hope you like my next post.
Yes, I’m a biased observer here. And yes, TJX has a huge (possibly oversized) presence in very new construction.
But Needham Street also has Boston Ballet School, the Paper Annex, China Fair, New England Mobile Book Fair, Boston Ski & Tennis (which has 2 stores), Landry’s (employee-owned, 7 Boston-area locations), New England Soup Factory and Farm Grill Rotisserie, all smaller, locally owned shops.
Sean, I also found this post to be interesting.
I also greatly appreciated your “Hope you like my next post” response to trollery.
Elmo, please proceed to level-2 antagonism!
https://youtu.be/jXZWWJAtwsI?t=23
Great post Sean. I too find all of them being on Needham Street interesting. Love the “company town” reference – and the history that goes along with them.
I feel like the new spaces on Needham st have just involved shuffling existing business to newer, nice spots but then leaving behind empty spaces. A few additions but nothing too interesting. I avoid going down there unless I have a specific purpose because the traffic can be heavy at any time.
On another note I was in the Highlands last night around 6:30 and there seemed to be lots of activity and it wasn’t just at Anna’s