In a time when many boutiques are closing, Ballard’s own Blackbird is expanding to Portland. In an email sent out this morning, owner Nicole Miller says the small, 600 square-foot space will be on West Burnside and NW 13th Ave, two blocks from the Ace Hotel. “The building is being renovated currently to create six retail locations very similar to our current Ballard location in architecture and neighborhood appeal,” MIller writes. The new store won’t have Portland brands, instead they will sell their own Blackbird label and “our more seriously design driven brands like Robert Geller and Rick Owens,” Miller says. The new store is slated to open sometime this summer.
Blackbird expanding to Portland
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I’ve always thought of Blackbird as hideously expensive and generally aimed at people who are not me. So imagine my annoyance when I went in there on a lark to look for a coat and ended up finding a reasonably-priced coat and having a great experience with the sales staff. The nerve of them, defying my expectations!
Not that they didn’t try to sell me the $500 coat, too. They did.
Very nice to see; congratulations on the expansion Blackbird!
Lot of 5 ft 4in, 100lb men in that town too?
put a bird on it!
Nice way of saying…
‘Hey, we are moving to Portland.’
But, I could be wrong…lol.
hahaha…beat me to it!
Portland has no shortage of hipsters. But can your average hipster afford Blackbird’s high markups ?
Blackbird is OVER!