Rapidly Expanding Showroom Concept Moving Into Westchester County
Urban Edge Properties (NYSE:UE) today announced that it has signed a lease with Wren Kitchens for a new store at Yonkers Gateway Center. Slated for a 2023 opening, this will be the design showroom’s first Westchester location. The new concept is replacing a closed Pier 1 store. Wren Kitchens is the UK’s top retailer for affordable luxury kitchens and aims to be the same in the US.
“Wren Kitchens is a fast-growing and popular concept catering to the home renovations boom,“ said Josh Birns, Vice President, Leasing at Urban Edge. “Our Yonkers location offers an ideal space in a dense market to reach the desirable Westchester County consumer.“
Launched in 2009, family-owned Wren Kitchens has three manufacturing and assembling facilities and 101 showrooms in the UK. In the US, Wren Kitchens has announced 8 new showrooms to be open by the end of 2023. Wren Kitchens manufactures every one of its kitchens in the USA at a state-of-the-art facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Yonkers Gateway Center is a premier regional shopping center serving the City of Yonkers as well as the highly desirable and affluent villages of Scarsdale, Eastchester, Hartsdale and Ardsley. The property also features a new 50,000 SF HomeSense store as well as Burlington, Marshall’s, DSW, PetSmart and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.
Adam Weinblatt and Marc Frankel of Newmark represented Wren Kitchens in this transaction.
ABOUT URBAN EDGE PROPERTIES:
Urban Edge Properties is a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust focused on managing, acquiring, developing, and redeveloping retail real estate in urban communities, primarily in the New York metropolitan region. Urban Edge owns 76 properties totaling 17.2 million square feet of gross leasable area. For further information, please visit https://www.uedge.com.
