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Urban Outfitters speeds move from stores to warehouses

Still cutting deals on the Upper Main Line

    by Joseph N. DiStefano
    Published 
Chris Hepp's Philadelphia Inquirer story today shows how Richard Hayne's Urban Outfitters plans to expand its Lancaster County warehouse and online order-fulfillment operation and supporting Navy Yard headquarters staff. Read it here. See my August item about UO's increased reliance on online sales, given sluggish store growth. 
UO may have slowed new stores, but it hasn't stopped. We're still hearing about proposed new Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and even Terrain stores (all UO brands), for example around the Devon Horse Show complex in Easttown Township, Chester County, as the Inquirer wrote here last week. 
Devon Horse Show president Wade McDevitt, a longtime commercial real estate scout for Urban Outfitters stores, is married to Wendy Brown McDevitt, a former Anthropologie executive who now heads UO's small, as-yet unprofitable Terrain landscaping and garden division, which might make a workable replacement for the LeBoutilliers' bankrupt and departed Waterloo Gardens Devon flagship store.
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    Joseph N. DiStefano