Urban Outfitters’ Terrain eyes new site in Connecticut

Urban Outfitters is planning to expand its Terrain home and garden store concept into Connecticut, Westport News reported.

Representatives from the Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters presented to the Westport planning and zoning commission on Thursday a preliminary plan to bring a Terrain store to 561 Post Road East.

The proposal calls for the new establishment to retain the shell of the existing building, which remained after the dealership closed in 2009. Building footprint on the site would drop from about 22,000 square feet to 17,000 square feet, according to the proposal.

The Terrain plan also calls for extensive landscaping of the property.

“We're going to use our own landscaping team to landscape every free area we can,” said Ken Nemeth, Urban Outfitters' senior development manager. “We're going to do some very unconventional, beautiful things with the landscaping.”

Commissioners did not take any action Thursday on the plan, but they had an enthusiastic reaction.