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The Hahne and Company Department Store was the flagship store of the Hahne and Company, located 609 Broad Street in Downtown Newark, New Jersey. Opened in in 1901 and closed in 1986, it was added to the state and federal registers of historic places in 1994. Renovations began in 2015 to convert the building in living, retail, and cultural spaces.

Construction
Hahne's flagship store designed by architect Goldwin Starrett was opened In 1911, Occupying a 23 acre site, this single building contained 441000 sqft of selling space spread over five floors (basement through 4th floor), with an atrium in the center of the building which ran from the street floor to the 4th floor. An extensive Budget Store operated in the basement level until it was folded in the mid 1970s. The store also contained two popular dining rooms, the more formal "Pine Room" located on the street floor, and the counter-style "Maple Room" (located in the basement), which was very popular with downtown office workers. The "Maple Room" closed in the early 1980s when the basement level was closed as a selling floor, while the "Pine Room" remained open until the entire store was closed in 1987.

The original Hahne & Company building was designed in 1911 by Goldwin Starrett, who specialized in commercial palaces, like the headquarters for Manhattan's Bloomingdales, Lord & Taylor, and Saks Fifth Avenue (he also designed the 1921 American Stock Exchange). It was a popular downtown shopping center and meeting place (there were two restaurants on site) for three quarters of a century until it closed completely in 1987.

The Hahne building is on a 23-acre site. Built as the flagship store for an upscale retailer in the age of department store magnates, the building is both solidly constructed and richly detailed. There's a four-story, glass-topped atrium at its center that will have its riveted steel-and-glass ceiling lowered to the top of the second floor, so that private apartments can open directly on an airy space. The luminous pre-World War I windows on the top three floors, still visible above the first-floor construction fence, give a hint of its delicate American Renaissance façade.

Register of Historic Places
http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/94001005

Renovation/Restoration
http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/hahne-s-once-new-jersey-s-first-name-in-retail-getting-a-second-lease-on-life-1.1372876?page=all http://kssarchitects.com/design/our-work/hahne-co-building-adaptive-reuse

Express Newark-Rutgers University
Express Newark is a planned cultural center university-community project spearheaded by Rutgers-Newark and will occupy a portion of the building. The plan was first announced in October 2014.

Whole Foods and retail spaces
In January 2013 it was announced that the flagship store would be renovated with a "Whole Foods" on the ground floor and residential units above.