A Union Square building that has sat empty since early 2020 will soon have a new tenant.
Maybaum Gallery (opens in new tab), opened by Christina Maybaum in 2018, is taking over 20,000 square feet across multiple floors of the former Barneys department store at 48 Stockton St. Maybaum’s expansion marks a grand return for the building at the corner of Stockton and O’Farrell streets, which dates to 1909 and has been the site of retail giants like FAO Schwarz and, originally, Joseph Magnin’s department store.
As Union Square struggled since the pandemic, the corner building has loomed empty. Maybaum’s move into its bright, airy space marks a big win for the shopping district, which seems to be on an upswing, with a smattering of high-profile leases from the likes of Uniqlo and PopMart and a cohort of small businesses (opens in new tab) moving in through the city’s “Vacant to Vibrant” pop-up initiative…