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Urban Outfitters to Expand Westwood Location
Urban Outfitters Inc. is expanding its store in Los Angeles’ Westwood Village and making it into a flagship, said Topa Management Co., the landlord of Urban Outfitters’ larger Westwood space. The new flagship is scheduled to debut in Spring 2014.
Urban Outfitters is currently located at 1100 Westwood Blvd. and is a short walk from the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. With the expansion, the emporium will more than double its size to 16,556 square feet and will take on a new address: 1028 Westwood Blvd. It will be Urban Outfitters’ third-largest shop in California, Topa Management said. The largest California Urban Outfitters is located in San Francisco’s Union Square. It sprawls out over 30,000 square feet. Coming in at second place is the Urban Outfitters at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif.
Real estate group The McDevitt Co. represented the landlord and tenant in the negotiations on the Westwood location, which took several years to complete, according to a Topa Management statement. Urban Outfitters did not reply to an emailed request for comment.
Urban Outfitters is on the move in other areas, too. In August, it opened a 10,000-square-foot store in Malibu, Calif. It also announced construction of a 9,830-square-foot store in downtown Los Angeles, which is scheduled to open by the end of 2013.
