Chase-Newark

Chase-Newark was a short lived, upper middle-market department store based in Newark, New Jersey.

Chase-Newark was founded early in 1964 when David Chase purchased the Kresge-Newark Department stores from the Kresge Foundation, and leased back 5 floors of the downtown Newark location.

[1] When Sebastian Kresge (the founder of Kresge-Newark) died a foundation was set up to run the stores that bore his name.

David Chase could have used the Kresge name but instead re-branded the stores Chase-Newark, as he planned to refocus the stores to be (like Kresge), more upmarket compared to Bamberger's, but more trendy and fashion aware than Kresge-Newark was.

It was reported that David Chase spent close to 1 million dollars renovating the downtown Newark flagship to fit his vision.