Crate & Barrel is coming back to Cherry Creek, this time moving into the existing Macy’s Furniture Gallery at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center and restoring a national home-goods anchor to the mall’s main retail block. Macy’s will fold the stand-alone Furniture Gallery into its full-line store next door, a consolidation the companies say will refocus home shopping on the mall’s higher-traffic corridors. For local shoppers, it mostly reshuffles where to hunt for sofas, dinnerware, and those big seasonal displays that signal spring decorating season.
Public records show Crate & Barrel plans to take over the existing 23,000-square-foot Macy’s Furniture Gallery at 3122 E. First Ave., with a roughly $466,000 build-out budgeted for the space, according to BusinessDen. The retailer shuttered its previous Cherry Creek location at 101 Clayton Ln. in January 2025 as that Clayton Lane parcel moved toward redevelopment. The return keeps Crate & Barrel in a familiar cluster that still includes sister brand CB2 and other home-furnishing specialists.
In a statement to BusinessDen, Macy’s spokesman Orlando Veras said the company will move the Furniture Gallery assortment into its general retail store by April. "This change makes shopping for furniture easier and more convenient, allowing customers to explore our home assortment alongside apparel, beauty, and other categories in a single visit," Veras said. Macy’s own store listing for the Furniture Gallery also carries a "This location is moving" notice, according to Macy’s.
A Bigger Overhaul on First Avenue
The Crate & Barrel shuffle is part of a broader reworking of the Clayton Lane block, rebranded as Cherry Lane, where developers have proposed demolishing the old Sears and parts of the Crate & Barrel footprint to make way for apartments, office space, and new retail. Those plans, led by BMC Investments and partners, have been reshaping how national chains and local retailers position themselves in Cherry Creek, according to Denverite. The long-running project has already changed the map of First Avenue and continues to influence leasing decisions along the corridor.
What Shoppers Should Expect
A construction phase comes first, but the roughly $466,000 build-out filed in public records points to a cosmetic and systems refresh rather than a full gut job. Once the dust settles, shoppers will be able to size up furniture options in one concentrated sweep: Macy’s consolidated home displays right next door to a full Crate & Barrel outpost under the same shopping-center roof. The move fits a broader pattern in Cherry Creek, with national brands trimming or reconfiguring footprints while staying planted in the neighborhood’s highest-profile retail hubs.
