Neiman Marcus Opens Friday at Broadway Plaza

The media came Wednesday morning, oohing and ahhing over the appointments of the Neiman Marcus store, which opens to the public at 10 a.m. Friday.

And, between then and now, there's for four East Bay charities on Thursday evening.

One feature of this new Neiman Marcus, and about a dozen other new ones around the country in recent years, is a butterfly sculpture in the atrium over the escalators. The media tour was led in part by the artist of the butterfly sculpture, Ignaz Gorischek, vice president of store development for Neiman Marcus.

Watch Patch later today for more words and pictures from the Neiman Marcus media tour.