Cliff Notes: Blacc Sam on Opening The New Marathon Store

When when is the the grand opening, the expected expected grant opening.

Uh man, honestly, we still working.

I think we we close. We don't have a exact date, but definitely gotta be a this year.

You know. We we we we we push him.

We got a lot of ideas and uh things that we know we have to present before we can't open, and so all of 'em are being worked on.

Uh. But once we want, when once those.

Get built out, we still wanna come in and really you know, bring interesting and do some things with the new technology that he he he he has going. And we wanna take a step back and make sure that when you do come and it is open, it's y it's an experience.

So it's no it's no rush. We just wanna make sure we nail it.

Get it right.

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Actually I'm glad you said that because I know that Nip had the vision of making it a smart store. Is technology still a major part and as you plan on doing it and making this a smart store?

Yeah, undred percent, it's like exactly what you're saying.

When we finished the build out, we got to bring him in and let him you.

Know, one too, and it's no, it's no rush, you know what I'm saying. It ain't no rush.

Just get it right and then you know we'll feel comfortable with you know, opening up.

Yeah, So whenever that happens, there's there's a guarantee that that we will be here to support that, you know, from New York and from obviously when we anytime we're in La tapping in. Man, it's a it's a true, a true honor to be here in your presence and for you to share your space, man, and your time and the family with us.

Man, this has been incredible. No, I appreciate you'll pulling up mall. It's too easy.

I appreciate you, brother, Thank you.

Man.

Just get a couple of minutes in there, right, sure, all right.

So this is a sneak peek. One room, tell us, tell us where we at right now?

Survive. Uh, this is the rooftop. This is like kind of like private shopping.

So while we still getting downstairs renovated, taking our time with it, we gonna probably within another couple weeks open this up like uh, private shopping, so you can book in time slots. All the new stuff that we designed and new cutting. So some of the old classics you can get 'em from here, just to you know, be able to offer some type of uh uh uh brick and mortar location while we wait on the other the

Yeah.

Oh and this is the short set, the the set, the hoodie set.

Yeah, this is new. Yeah, that's yeah.

I'm about to say I haven't seen this on the side yet.

This is one of those things, so I s I see the paper planes up there.

You spoke about rock Nation man that that relationship. Talk about how solid that's been, how important it's been to into the the development of the marathon.

Yeah, I think just solid people.

NIP had a real close relationship with uh Emory and w you know, he he he brought the situation for uh NIP to be signed with Rock Nation, brought the Puma deal together, and aside from that, just had a real solid relationship. Like I met Emory through you know, NIP introducing me to 'em, and so I think they aside from business, they just been there to kind of make sure everything is done correctly help out any time

So is this is this part gonna be once the store fully opens? Is this gonna be like a VIP shopping experience? Yeah, yeah, that's what we think, and this should be once it's open. It's like, you know, somebody kind of don't want.

To be down there or want to kind of like get in in and out come up here.

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Yeah we we we saw we gotta a person out front that greeted us. Man, I see mom's outside. Oh yeah, mama love had the bee's bumping outside. So I I the last time we came you went here, I think the sore was closed. It was kind of late in the evening. But I don't know if you had the spot next door.

No, we didn't, So let's let's talk about that.

Well you got this spot and you said, let's expand because now that's not even COVID, that's that's more in the food space.

Yes, more in the food space. So I just thought about, uh the different things that we needed around here in the neighborhood, and uh what was gonna work. And I said, you know what, we need to uh build a a restaurant for our people to where we can you know, and then we'll have vegan food, uh juices like mm we know a different type of way to treat our folks. And you can come here. You can eat good housepitality.

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