As the final days of the downtown Dallas Neiman Marcus flagship store approach, visitors are making special trips to document and remember a piece of the city’s history before it closes Sept. 30.<\/p>\n
The store at Main and Ervay has operated in downtown Dallas for more than a century. In recent days, shoppers, tourists and history enthusiasts have been stopping by to take photos, revisit memories and say goodbye to a landmark that has long been associated with the city’s identity.<\/p>\n
One of those visitors was Tiffany Schweikhart, who drove several hours to see the store before it closes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just didn\u2019t want to let this moment go by without having some kind of pictorial history of it,\u201d Schweikhart said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI drove down because I knew Neiman Marcus was closing,\u201d Schweikhart said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never been to the flagship store before \u2013 and I\u2019ve always wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jarrell Johnson was also among those photographing the building. He said his aunt worked in the store’s bridal department for three decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think now I read about 112 years at this location, 1618 Main Street. Yeah, I just decided to come down and just get my last little photos on the outside of the building and enjoyed it totally,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
The downtown store has faced previous threats of closure and efforts to keep it operating, including work by city leaders to keep the flagship open through another Christmas season last year. But this summer brought confirmation that the location would close amid the bankruptcy of Neiman Marcus’ parent company, which includes Saks Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n
Some of the retailer’s best-known features, including the Zodiac restaurant, are expected to transition to the company’s NorthPark location.<\/p>\n
Visitors from England, Darren Robinson and Penney Kilbey, said they did not realize they were visiting the downtown Neiman Marcus during its final days until learning about the closure.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s iconic \u2013 this shop really,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really sad \u2013 any long-time buildings that are closing down \u2013 I think it\u2019s happening everywhere in the world,\u201d Kilbey said.<\/p>\n
Those stopping by the store expect more people will visit before the doors close for good.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the history photos that they have posted along the windows,\u201d Schweikhart said.<\/p>\n
For many, the final days of the downtown flagship offer one last chance to create a memory before the location becomes part of Dallas history.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo come through downtown Dallas and not have a Neiman Marcus here, you will miss it,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n
This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC DFW. AI tools helped convert the story into a digital article, and an NBC DFW journalist edited it again before publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the final days of the downtown Dallas Neiman Marcus flagship store approach, visitors are making special trips…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-447984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}