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Outdoor retailer REI sets mid-November opening date for Sarasota store

The Seattle-based outdoor gear and clothing brand's other store on the west coast of Florida is in Tampa.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 1:00 p.m. October 22, 2023
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REI Co-op announced earlier that year that it planned to open a store in the UTC area.
REI Co-op announced earlier that year that it planned to open a store in the UTC area.
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Popular national specialty outdoor retailer REI Co-op has set an opening date — Nov. 10 — for its first Sarasota-Bradenton location.

The 25,000-square-foot store is at 161 N. Cattleman Road, in the West District at University Town Center, just off the University Parkway exit of Interstate 75. It’s between DSW and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Seattle-based REI has Florida locations in Tampa, Winter Park, Palm Beach Gardens, Boca Raton, Jacksonville and Tallahassee; the Tampa location in the Midtown development opened in 2021.

REI officials, in an email, say the company’s “grand openings are quite the celebration. It is not uncommon for 200+ people to be in line when we open, including the occasional longtime REI member who camps overnight or arrives in the early hours to hold the honor of first in line.”

 


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Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is the managing editor of the Business Observer. He has worked for the Business Observer since 2005. He previously worked for newspapers and magazines in upstate New York, suburban Philadelphia and Jacksonville.

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