Goldmann's owner opens Mitchell Street Menswear

By Molly Snyder Edler
OnMilwaukee.com, June 5, 2008

When Goldmann's Department Store, 930 W. Mitchell St., closed last fall, it shut the book on an 111-year-old establishment that reached iconic status in Milwaukee.

Now, former co-owner Jerry Lewis, 79, plans to reopen a similar version of the store in a nearby location, 710 W. Mitchell St., later this year.

The new store, called Mitchell Street Menswear, will occupy the storefront in the Kunzelmann-Esser Lofts Building, renovated by Gorman & Company in 2002.

The store will feature urban-appeal menswear, a shoe department, a hat department and a candy counter similar to the infamous one inside Goldmann's.

Mitchell Street Menswear will open in September 2008.

"I really just got bored being retired," said Lewis.

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