Category:Kresge-Newark

English: Kresge-Newark was an upper-middle market department store based in Newark. The firm was started in the 1920s when its founder Sebastian Kresge purchased the Plautt Department store in downtown Newark and rebranded the business Kresge-Newark. This store had no management connection to the S.S. Kresge 5 & 10 chain based in Detroit, Michigan. Kresge built a handsome flagship store that occupied an entire city block. between Broad and Halsey streets, and Cedar Street and Raymond Boulevard. It contained more than of selling space on ten levels (nine stories plus a basement store). Such was the store's prominence in the city that in 1927 it arranged to have a subway platform opened at its basement level, allowing customers to come in directly from streetcars; the only access was through the store.