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L.L. Bean Signs On At Uptown Worthington

MALVERN, PA-The Freeport, ME-based retailer joins anchors Wegmans and Muvico at the 1.9-million-sf mixed-use in what will be its only Philadelphia-area location.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on July 22, 2008

[IMGCAP(1)]MALVERN, PA-L.L. Bean has signed on as an anchor tenant of O’Neill Properties Group’s Uptown Worthington, a $532-million mixed-use under construction here. The 33,000-sf store, which joins a 140,000-sf Wegmans supermarket and a 14-screen Muvico theatre as retail anchors, will be the Freeport-ME-based outdoor apparel company’s only Philadelphia-area location.

“As Wegmans is clearly the number one grocery store operator in the country, we believe that in outdoor goods, L.L. Bean is not only the leading purveyor but they’re also a classic American icon,” Brian O’Neill, founder and chairman of King of Prussia, PA-based O’Neill, tells GlobeSt.com. “We made numerous trips to their headquarters in Maine, talked with everyone from top to bottom and had numerous conversations about why we thought this was such a great place for them to be.”

[IMGCAP(2)]Along with the 1.9-million-sf project’s location and demographics, a key factor for L.L. Bean was the green initiatives O’Neill Properties is undertaking, O’Neill says. Uptown Worthington is remediating and redeveloping a 77-acre brownfield, the former Worthington Steel Factory; the developer also plans 30% open space, a Rails-to-Trails bike path and the re-opening of Little Valley Creek, currently enclosed in a pipe under asphalt paving. “They felt that being in the top 1% of US demographics, coupled with the unique opportunity to be located on a renovated factory site, was a winning combination.” L.L. Bean plans LEED certification for its store here, according to a news release.

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