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"   Photo: Treasure &amp;amp;amp; Bond  On Friday, Nordstrom will open their first concept store, Treasure &amp;amp;amp; Bond, on West Broadway in New York&amp;#039;s Soho. Today, Pete Nordstrom was hanging out in the Merci-like space greeting editors and talking enthusiastically about building &amp;quot;grassroots connections&amp;quot; to the community. Though most people want to know when Nordstrom will open a New York flagship, we have a feeling Treasure &amp;amp;amp; Bond will fill any shopping void New Yorkers could possibly feel. &amp;quot;It wasn&amp;#039;t something that was created in a conference room in Seattle, it happened much more organically,&amp;quot; Nordstrom said. &amp;quot;Being able to do something kind of scrappy and independent and totally merchant-like and incredibly authentic was super appealing.&amp;quot; The first question they asked when approached with the concept was, &amp;quot;How can Nordstrom enable something like this and allow it to be its own thing?&amp;quot; Thanks to Nordstrom, they landed an open industrial space downtown and filled it with one-off products from London based jewelers Akong, custom hats from Satya Twena, authentic vintage glasses, a wide variety of books and basics like James Perse and Vince, too. There are housewares, kid&amp;#039;s clothes and recycled rugs between the racks of clothes and cases full of jewelry and the kicker, of course, is that all of the stores&amp;#039; profits go to charity. They&amp;#039;ve chosen eight different charities for the first year: The New York Public Library, Children&amp;#039;s Health Fund, Caolition for the Homeless, The Achievement Gap Project, The Edible Schoolyard, Friends of the High Line, Pediatric Cancer Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Association to Benefit Children and Camp Homeward Bound. As for that oft-asked question, Nordstrom promises, &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re going to try and build a store regardless of what happens here.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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