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Outdoorsy residents in Glendale, Ariz., Rancho Mirage, Calif., and St George, Utah, will quickly have a brand new place to gear up, with REI asserting as we speak it’s going to open new shops there in 2024 and 2025.

The announcement follows beforehand introduced openings coming this 12 months, bringing the entire variety of new co-ops becoming a member of the REI fleet to 11 between this 12 months and subsequent.

“Every of those communities has an abundance of simply accessible pure locations to play along with proximity to iconic nationwide parks the place REI at the moment guides energetic adventures,” Mary-Farrell Tarbox, REI vp of shops, stated in a press launch. “We stay up for serving as a welcoming useful resource to everybody by way of our workers’s experience and broad product assortment.”

Tarbox additionally confirmed that per REI’s customary working process, the co-op would associate with native nonprofits within the new communities to help extra folks recreating exterior.

REI Enlargement

In the present day’s announcement comes after one other banner 12 months for the outside business. On the shut of 2023, the U.S. Division of Commerce launched an financial affect report that valued the outside business at a whopping $1.1 trillion. Whereas that determine consists of many expenditures not linked to REI’s enterprise (corresponding to RVs and journey), the report factors to total well being within the business.

Trying forward, REI will open practically a dozen shops from coast to coast, together with Beavercreek, Ohio, and Beaverton, Ore., within the spring; Glendale, Ithaca, N.Y., and Rancho Mirage in the summertime; and Albany, N.Y., and Tulsa, Okla., within the fall. Areas in Durango, Colo., and St. George are slated for 2025 opening.

REI stated three extra areas will probably be introduced as contracts are finalized. The co-op stated every location could have a full-service bike store and cater to all method of outside sports activities. As well as, the co-op famous that St. George will provide a ski and snowboard store.