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Chinese luxury store seeks San Francisco footprint

Shanghai Tang, one of Hong Kong's most cutting-edge stores, is looking to make a big splash in the United States. The firm has tapped GVA Kidder Mathews' Skip Whitney and Sheldon Pont to find the swankiest retail space the West has to offer.

The Kidder Mathews team has landed a deal at the Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and are searching for locations in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The chain bills itself as the "first global Chinese lifestyle brand" that interweaves "traditional Chinese culture with the dynamism of the 21st century." Shanghai Tang was founded in 1994 by Hong Kong businessman David Tang Wing-Cheung. Its flagship store in central Hong Kong attracts 4 million visitors a year. Shanghai Tang has three stores in Hong Kong, three in Shanghai, one on Madison Avenue in New York and stores in Singapore, Beijing, Zurich, Dubai, and Tokyo.

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...wscolumn1.html

Take that, Chicago! Miami! Houston! Etc!

"What do they sell?" you may well ask. See http://www.shanghaitang.com/shanghaitang/index.jsp