Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley, the first new outlet center to open in California since 2001, will welcome shoppers for its grand opening weekend celebration Thursday, Nov. 8 through Sunday, Nov 11.
Developed by Paragon Outlet Partners, a commercial real estate development firm headquartered in Baltimore, the $150 million, 543,000 square foot outlet center with 130 leading designer and top brand name stores, will proudly serve the Greater San Francisco Bay region.
“Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley is one of only five outlet centers that will open in the United States this year,” said Paragon Outlet Partners Principal Robert A. Brvenik. “We know shoppers are eager to save at our exciting collection of iconic brands and we’re thrilled to deliver an outlet center that is 100 percent leased just ahead of the holiday shopping season today. In fact, we’ll keep Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley open until 11:00 p.m. Thursday and midnight both Friday and Saturday nights over our grand opening weekend.”
According to Paragon Outlet Partners Principal Nicholas King, “Not only are we proud to deliver a well-tenanted shopping destination that offers dramatic savings, but we are delighted our grand opening also represents the delivery of approximately 2,000 permanent jobs in the region.”
More than $15,000 in sweepstakes prizes and give-aways courtesy of merchants such as Armani Outlet, Bloomingdale’s, The Outlet Store, Cole Haan, Converse, Elie Tahari, J.Crew, Kipling, Levi’s Outlet Store, MaxMara, Movado Company Store, Nike Factory Store and Nine West Outlet, among many more, will mark Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley’s highly-anticipated debut in the regional marketplace. Anchor stores including Bloomingdale’s, The Outlet Store, Last Call by Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH will kick off the outlet center’s grand opening celebration early Wednesday, Nov. 7.
Bloomingdale’s, The Outlet Store will welcome shoppers to its VIP shopper preview day from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., while Last Call by Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH will host shopper previews from noon to 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., respectively. Paragon Outlet Partners will officially open the area’s newest outlet shopping center at its Champagne & Confetti Grand Opening Ceremony, near the outlet center’s Food Court, Thursday, Nov. 8 at 10:00 a.m. And, beginning at 5:00 p.m., Diablo, a leading lifestyle magazine, will host an invitation-only VIP Grand Opening Party complete with:
- Swag bags featuring merchandise from an array of brands including Bloomingdale’s, The Outlet Store, Columbia Sportswear, Goldtoe, Jockey, Le Creuset, Michael Stars, Tommy Hilfiger, Ultra Diamonds and many more. (While supplies last.)
- Style Suggestions with Diablo Magazine’s Style Editor Kristen Haney along with Last Call by Neiman Marcus’s Stylist Brandy Lunsford.
- A sampling of culinary treasures of the Livermore Valley provided by area restaurants.
- Select wines courtesy of Wente Vineyards.
What’s more, the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association will host Sunset, Sip & Shop Saturday, Nov. 10 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Featuring tastings from 15 of Livermore Valley’s wineries, tickets are $10 and may be purchased online at www.lvwine.org or on-site on a first come, first serve basis.
"Paragon Outlets is a great addition to Livermore Valley and will definitely enhance the wine county experience for our visitors," said Chris Chandler, executive director of the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association. "We are very pleased to partner with Paragon Outlets in making our beautiful region a top Bay Area destination."
Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley’s grand opening weekend schedule follows. For a complete list of individual store grand opening sales, limited-time offers, special events and more including a merchant directory and outlet center map please visit www.paragonoutletsLV.com.
Wednesday, Nov. 7:
- Bloomingdale’s, The Outlet Store VIP shopper preview day: 10:00 a.m.to 9:00 p.m.
- Last Call by Neiman Marcus shopper preview: noon to 5:00 p.m.
- Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH shopper preview: 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 8: Open 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.
- 10 a.m.: Champagne & Confetti Grand Opening Ceremony, near Food Court ·
- 10 a.m.: Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley opens with limited-time offers, merchant giveaways, prize sweepstakes and entertainment
- 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.: Diablo’s VIP Grand Opening Party, near Brooks Brothers Factory Store
Friday, Nov.9: Open 10 a.m. to midnight
- Limited-time offers, merchant giveaways, prize sweepstakes and entertainment
Saturday, Nov. 10: Open 10 a.m. to midnight
- Limited-time offers, merchant giveaways, prize sweepstakes and entertainment
- 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.: Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association’s Sunset, Sip & Shop event
Sunday, Nov. 11: Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
- Limited-time offers, merchant giveaways, prize sweepstakes and entertainment “Even before our grand opening shoppers have the opportunity to join our exclusive Privilege Club at www.paragonoutletsLV.com. Becoming a member entitles shoppers to a complimentary VIP Coupon Book worth hundreds of dollars in extra savings,” said Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley Assistant General Manager Dave Ackerman.
About Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley Located on Interstate 580 at the El Charro Road exit in Livermore, Ca., Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley proudly serves the Greater San Francisco Bay region. Celebrating its grand opening in November of 2012, Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley is home to 130 leading designer and top brand name stores including Bloomingdale’s, The Outlet Store, Last Call by Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH, Armani Outlet, Barneys New York Outlet, Burberry, Coach Factory, DKNY, Elie Tahari, Kate Spade New York, J.Crew, Michael Kors, Prada, Polo Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, among many more, which offer savings of 25% to 65% every day. For more information about Paragon Outlets Livermore Valley including a complete merchant directory, shopping hours and driving directions please visit www.paragonoutletsLV.com or contact the outlet center’s Management Office at 925.292.2868.
About Paragon Outlet Partners Headquartered in Baltimore, Paragon Outlet Partners is a commercial real estate development firm operated by a seasoned team of former Prime Retail executives with outlet center development projects serving the Dallas/Fort Worth and San Francisco regions along with a retail and entertainment complex in the Orlando market. Its parent company, The Lightstone Group, is one of the largest privately held real estate companies in the U.S. with a diversified portfolio of retail, hospitality, office, industrial and residential real estate assets, including more than 8.1 million square feet of commercial space and more than 11,000 multi-family units in 19 states. Paragon Outlet Partners’ upscale merchant portfolio includes top designer and leading brand names Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5TH, Last Call by Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s, The Outlet Store, Barneys New York Outlet, Coach Factory, Michael Kors, Nike Factory Store and Tommy Hilfiger, among many more. For more information, visit www.paragonoutlets.com.
Livermore/Live MORE!!! Come by and visit us at lucy too! Have a fabulous opening week all! Heather @ lucy Activewear
From the rest of Livermore, there are only two ways to get there-- 1.) I-580; 2.) The new stretch of Jack London that just opened up. I drove it yesterday afternoon and there is a whole lot of nothing in between that shopping center and the rest of town, especially with the airport and the sewage treatment plant nearby. Whoever did the market studies for that shopping center probably did not count on much traffic coming in from the rest of Livermore, but more from Dublin and perhaps Pleasanton, which are closer to the shopping center than the rest of Livermore is. All the other areas where the folks of Livermore shop are within easy reach of the rest of the town, be it on First/Holmes, Vasco or Las Positas, with whatever is around Costco on the other side of the freeway for the people that live there. As for Paragon, once the Christmas shopping season is over, business at that shopping center will have to thrive on what comes off the freeway there at El Charro, because the rest of Livermore will still be doing their shopping at their familiar places.
People will be coming from all over northern CA to shop the Livermore outlets, In no way was the investment made considering Livermore as the only ROI, why do you think it is constructed next to I-580 and not downtown? Consider the access I-580 and BART provide. "The median income of four out of the five Tri-Valley cities is more than double that of the United States as a whole. Only Livermore lags in terms of median income, but not by much. This is not surprising as the Tri-Valley cities possess higher levels of education than the national average." source: http://www.innovationtrivalley.org/portals/1/reports/trivalley_report_v8_Jul21_2010%20web.pdf Livermore wins on tax revenue, but looses on common sense to allow Dublin to annex the land on the other side of 580, similar to what happened with Ruby Hill being annexed to Pleasanton.
I'm a peasant, meaning that there is NOTHING entitled about me, period! You may want this bunch of shops around and may be working to drum up business for what is out there. For all I know, it might be your job to do that and you must do what you may have agreed to do for that job and earn your pay. But at the same time, after looking at this site come up and seeing how the folks at the Livermore Chamber of Commerce and the folks in Pleasanton trying to get some development for Staples Ranch across the street on El Charro, and given the geographic isolation that this area has from the rest of Livermore, do you really think that this place will serve the people of Livermore any better than the shopping locations that are closer to where most of us live? From my perspective here on Junction Avenue, it would be much easier for me to walk to Wal-Mart and Kohl's and even Target and all those stores that surround them than it would be to pop into my car, expend gasoline and cause further wear-and-tear on my vehicle, or spend the money for a bus ride or cab fare, and get out to Paragon. Paragon is isolated from the rest of Livermore and might not get those customers and even the sales tax for the city coffers. And the residents of Dublin and Pleasanton might not like the prospect of paying sales tax to Livermore by shopping there, either. Only time tells what becomes of that development and whether or not those businesses thrive out there.
So regardless of whether or not it may be more convenient to shop at Paragon, which to Livermore it is not, it would still be easier and even cheaper to go over Altamont Pass and shop in Tracy, which also has outlet shops and even a Best Buy like Dublin has, a mall like Pleasanton has and even many of the same stores that one sees in Livermore--all without the sales tax that the people in Livermore pay, so even if there are the same shops at Paragon as there are over on MacArthur and 205 in Tracy, the folks that can get there will be paying less in sales tax even if they have the same stuff for the same price at both locations. So if I choose to shop at an outlet center, it may be less expensive to me to drive over the hill 20 minutes and buy that stuff in Tracy because the sales tax out there is less than it is here in any of the Tri-Valley cities or anywhere else either in eastern Alameda or Contra Costa counties. So unless something detrimental happens out there to either Tracy or San Joaquin County, they might get more business out there because they have a lower sales tax.
Actually, when it comes to Sales Tax, I will consider that, because I watch my pennies. And when it comes to Pleasanton, I make it a point to spend as little time or money in that town, especially because I don't like its city government because of its restrictions on low-income housing which forces the rest of us around Pleasanton to deal with that. And I certainly will not drive in Pleasanton without a Fuzzbuster pinging away for anybody using a speed gun or any other detection equipment one uses in a speed trap. Add to that the questionable tactics that the Pleasanton Police Department employs this time of year, both at the Graham Hitch parking lot on the east side of town monitoring the traffic coming in through Stanley Boulevard/First Street, or at the California Pool shop over on Sunol Boulevard and Santa Rosa Avenue, where they do everything in the dark, no lights, no reflect tape. So when you have police departments out there using private property for means other than what the owners use that property for, then I have a problem with that, because it may be trespassing and unlawful conversion of that private property for starters. The only reason anybody in Law Enforcement should be on private property is if they were chasing down a criminal that was using that property or investigating a crime on that property. Other than that, they stay off the property unless invited.
The reason, because in Dublin, you also pay the high sales tax and BART sales tax on top of that, just like the rest of Alameda County does. If one spends a few hundred bucks on things like digital cameras and TVs, it might not hurt to look at how much sales tax may be levied from one location to the next. And if one looks at the Sales Tax rates, Tracy's at 8.25% is less than 8.75% that Livermore has these days, or even the 9.25% that El Cerrito charges. That may not seem that much for the smaller dollar items, but if you are paying at least several hundred dollars for an item, the Sale Tax one levies where you buy the item is going to matter. You should always be mindful of what you pay for an item as well as be just as mindful of what you pay for sales tax. And for those of us who shop at Fry's Electronics, be mindful that even though you may find shopping at the one in Concord more convenient than the one closer to us in Fremont, but Concord at one time used to charge 9.25% sales tax over the 8.75% that was charged in Fremont.
So sometimes where you purchase your stuff does matter and you should be mindful even of the sales tax.