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Urban Outfitters - New York

Urban Outfitters – New York

This weekend the Times Union reported that Urban Outfitters is coming to phase two of St. Johns Town Center:

The remainder of the retailer lineup, some new to the Jacksonville area, will be announced within a month. The stores are tentatively slated to open in fall 2007. Urban Outfitters – A trendy emporium of cheeky T-shirts and funky accessories for the teenaged crowd.

In addition to this article I received an email from a friend who told me his buddy who works for Urban Outfitters in NYC that said there was a lot of talk within the company. There is still no mention of a Jacksonville location on the Urban Outfitters website.

Why am I talking about Urban Outfitters at St. John’s Town Center? Isn’t that a suburban thang? Yes, but I see Urban Outfitters as a barometer that points to the overall retail health of the city.

The opening of Urban Outfitters points to one of two things: Jacksonville is beginning to reach a critical mass in terms of retail or Urban Outfitters has reached a point of market saturation. You see in the past Urban Outfitters has limited its retail stores to trendier locations like college towns and larger cities, New York, Chicago, Seattle.

I hope the opening points to Jacksonville becoming a place that is known in retail circles as a good place to open stores. This could mean Jacksonville is on it’s way to having more retail and restaurant diversity. Is that Crate and Barrel I see in the distance?

Other stores that plan to open in phase two: Cole Haan, PUMA, Brooks Brothers, BCBG

Don’t forget those who think UO is the devil:
urbancounterfeiters.com
Urban Outfitters will steal your cupcakes
Urban Outfitters Highjacks Crown Farmer

tags: jacksonville, urban outfitters, st johns town center

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http://www.rampanttiger.com rampant

“Jacksonville is beginning to reach a critical mass in terms of retail or Urban Outfitters has reached a point of market saturation. ”

Its a bit of both IMO. UO is expanding out, but it is at heart a urban apartment/loft dweller’s store. So it only makes sense that as they expand they would eventually find Jacksonville.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com thelakelander

Urban Outfitters has been locating in suburban malls for years now. For example, they have Florida stores in Mall at Millenia (Orlando), Palm Beach Gardens Mall (West Palm Beach) and Aventura Mall (Miami). Imo, their coming here simply because our market has grown to the point to where it can support one.

With SJTC II underway, expect to see a lot more of announcements like this in the next few months.
http://suburbanjacksonville.blogspot.com Mopey Mandarin & Apathetic Arlington

You’ve not only beaten us to it, but you’ve cause me to piss my pants with excitement all over again.
http://www.rampanttiger.com rampant

clean up!!! ailse suburbia
http://www.downtownparks.com Downtownparks

When I was in High School we would make fairly regular trips into Boston. Invariably we would end up at the Harvard Sq Urban Outfitters… Then maybe a walk across the street to the Garage or maybe even pizza at Uno’s…

I think they should try to be downtown rather than a suburban mall. UO is the type of place people would come downtown to shop at, IMO.
http://www.urbanjacksonville.info joeymarchy

I totally agree. I would love to see an UO downtown, but in the Jacksonville market there is just not enough foot traffic dowtown to sustain the UO.

5-Points, definately. If I think back to all the Urban Outfitters I have been to, foot traffic in and out of the store is a huge aspect.

UO would wither and die downtown, at SJTC it will be very successful.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com thelakelander

While, I would love to see one downtown, I agree with joey, it would wither up and die, especially with the parking situation still up in the air. While downtown has the potential, SJTC is reality and already has the foot traffic.
John

Well, everyone beat me to the point, but I believe it would atleast look better downtown :)

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