More than a year after lease was reported, no visible progress at Triangle Building, across from Barclays Center, for Rihanna's Savage x Fenty store.

Triangle Building from across Flatbush Avenue

Remember how the Triangle Building at Flatbush and Fifth avenues, home to a longstanding sports equipment outlet that closed before the Barclays Center opened across Flatbush, sold twice for big money while remaining empty, and, finally, last year, appeared to gain a tenant?

WWD 2/24/22 quoted unnamed sources about a 10-year lease for Rihanna's Savage x Fenty lingerie line, with an asking--not necessarily achieved--annual rent of $650,000 a year. (The news was later picked up by multiple sources.)

WWD said its sources "say the exterior facade of the Triangle Building will be branded with Savage x Fenty’s bright colors, logo and other marketing materials." 

Triangle Building front door

WWD noted that Savage x Fenty wouldn't comment but "sources say construction on the space has begun, and will take at least a few months to complete." It was to be the company's first store in New York State.

No progress

Well, maybe not so much. 

As shown in the photos, which I took three days ago, not much has happened with the exterior or interior of the store.

Nor have any plans been filed with the Department of Buildings.

If indeed the company has a 10-year lease, they have time to amortize the costs of the conversion into a store.

But if they've made no (visible) progess at all, that has to raise some questions. 

The store's not listed on the Savage x Fenty website. (The other stores are in malls.) Nor has it been mentioned on the Savage x Fenty Twitter account. Meanwhile, Savage x Fenty has just opened a store at the Roosevelt Field mall in Nassau

Interior of Triangle Building