Loehmann’s, the New York City-based discount department store that had a devoted — and deeply Jewish — fan base, is set to make a return later this month.
Now under new ownership after closing for good in 2014, Loehmann’s will relaunch as a series of pop-up stores, beginning with a warehouse sale at Tanger Outlets at Deer Park on Long Island on Aug. 22, the New York Post reports. Future pop-ups are planned in Florida and New York City.
The iconic brand, founded by former department store buyer Frieda Loehmann and her son Charles in Brooklyn in 1921, went bankrupt in 2013. It was purchased in 2020 another company famous for its cut-price fashion deals: New York retail giant Century 21, which was founded by the Gindi family in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in 1961, and is still run by the Syrian Jewish family today…