How a New York Office Building Next to a Kmart Became a Magnet for Celebrities

HuffPost, Facebook and Billboard made 770 Broadway an A-list destination

About a century ago, New York's 770 Broadway—the building where Adweek, as well as sister titles Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, can be found—housed the bustling Wanamaker's department store, which anchored the shopping district then known as "Ladies' Mile."

Poehler: Donna Ward/Getty Images; Jonas: Josiah
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Today, Wanamaker's is long gone (instead, you'll find a much less glamorous Kmart occupying the Southeast corner), and the structure has been converted into an office building.

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