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Urban Outfitters Developing Lifestyle Village in Philadelphia

Main Line property will include stores, restaurants and boutique hotel

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11 years ago

October 10, 2013

steve kaufman

Urban Outfitters Inc. (Philadelphia) has leased a 6.5-acre site in Philadelphia’s Main Line with plans to develop an entire lifestyle village.

According to MainLineMediaNews.com, the retailer plans a Terrain garden center, an Anthropologie, a boutique hotel, two restaurants and complementary shops and amenities on the property formerly known as Waterloo Gardens.

Local developers Eli Kahn and Wade McDevitt and Urban Outfitters executives unveiled a detailed preliminary sketch plan for the site to the Easttown Township Planning Commission earlier this week.

“We’re expanding our bricks-and-mortar retail experience to a lifestyle experience that will meet the taste level of the Devon community,” explained Dave Ziel, chief development officer for Urban Outfitters.

The project’s working title is Devon Yard.

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