Phew. Now my son can pick up those H&M jeans he likes. But this is big news. An H&M in downtown Brooklyn. Okay. Here’s the Brooklyn Paper with the story:

Swedish cheap-chic clothing store H&M will come to Fulton Mall
by next spring — and could be one of the first tenants in a giant new
glass-walled mall at Bridge Street.

The high-fashion/low-priced
store confirmed that it would open by spring, 2009 — and a real-estate
source told The Brooklyn Paper that reclusive Fulton Mall developer Al
Laboz will be the store’s landlord.

That makes sense, given that
Laboz owns the landmark Conway building at 505 Fulton St. and plans a
glass mini-mall next door — and Laboz has said for years that H&M
is exactly the kind of retailer he wants on a diversified Fulton Mall.