management group industry retail founded 1900 headquarters birmingham alabama u.s. products clothing footwear jewelry and beauty products website http www.gusmayer.com gus mayer is a birmingham alabama based family owned upscale specialty department store that caters to upper end clientele and is known for its high end fashions . the two store chain is owned by the pizitz management group . it has locations at the colonial brookwood village in the greater birmingham area and the mall at green hills in nashville both of which are known as high end retail centers . typical brands carried include 7 for all mankind juicy couture dolce & gabbana roberto cavalli gianfranco ferr michael kors zang toi zac posen lela rose st. john monique lhuillier and burberry . it was founded in 1900 ; the original gus mayer department store was located on canal street in downtown new orleans . at one time there were more than 20 gus mayer stores across the southeast and southwest . the first birmingham location opened in 1922 in the retail block behind the molton hotel on 5th avenue north . later the store was located at 2240 highland avenue in the bottega favorita location now home to bottega restaurant & cafe . two years after the brookwood village mall opened in 1973 the store moved there . in 1975 when the stores were being sold off individually the pizitz family purchased the birmingham operation and later added the nashville location . these two are the only remaining gus mayer stores today . in 2002 the colonial brookwood village store was relocated and expanded along with the renovations to the mall . hambrecht oleson design associates of new york designed the new 21 000 square foot 2 000 m2 store with local architects crawford mcwilliams and hatcher . the shoe salons at gus mayer which include a full line stuart weitzman boutique and a cole haan concept salon are owned independently by david kraselsky who leases the store space . in 2010 the gus mayer at colonial brookwood village made plans to move to the summit as part of an updating of the store s merchandising strategy sometime around valentine s day 2011 . . the new 15 000 square foot 1 400 m2 store was also designed by hambrecht oleson . bayer properties petitioned the city of birmingham for 500 000 in tax abatement incentives for the deal . edit external links edit gus mayer 1 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gus mayer & oldid 647221248 categories companies based in birmingham alabamadepartment stores of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 15 february 2015 at 09 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view