Urban Outfitters Parent Plots $150M Greater Philly Expansion
A Philadelphia-based apparel giant is growing its presence in the region with the construction of a new facility in the suburbs and the addition of more than 1,000 jobs.
Urbn — the parent company of Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People — is building a 975K SF facility for its clothing rental service Nuuly in Bucks County, it announced Monday.
The facility for laundry and storage operations, planned to come online in Falls Township in 2028, is expected to create at least 600 jobs.
Urbn also said it will add at least 450 jobs at its headquarters in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it moved from Center City in 2006.
“Urban Outfitters was built from the ground up in Philadelphia more than five decades ago – and we are proud that this company is continuing to grow and create jobs all across our Commonwealth,” Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a statement about the $150M investments.
The Falls Township project was accepted into the PA Permit Fast Track Program in January.
The initiative, created to expedite permitting timelines, also includes Johnson & Johnson’s $1B Montgomery County gene therapy manufacturing plant and Amazon’s Falls Township data center project, which is just a 5-mile drive from the Nuuly site.
The subscription-based clothing rental service already has a distribution center in Levittown with 1,300 employees. Nuuly has garnered 500,000 subscribers since it was launched in 2019 and made up 9.2% of Urbn’s sales in fiscal year 2026, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Urbn, which posted record earnings in the first quarter, plans to open 54 new stores and close 19 this year, executives said during its most recent earnings call, Chain Store Age reported.
The new locations will include 21 for the activewear chain FP Movement, 12 Free People stores, 13 Anthropologie stores and eight Urban Outfitters.
