D.C. leaders have been talking to Bloomingdale’s in recent months about locating a new store in downtown Washington, possibly in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library or perhaps on the Old Convention Center site.

Sean Madigan, spokesman for the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, would only confirm the city has “talked to Bloomingdale’s about a lot of sites in the city.” Jim Sluzewski, spokesman for Bloomingdale’s parent company Macy’s, said the department store giant is “always looking for new store locations, but we do not disclose where we may or may not be looking.”