New retailer joins Triangle Shops
The Moirisville and Preston Progress, Wednesday, May 29,1996 7
By Tammy Hayas
Business at Triangle Factory
Shops, a manufacturers’ outlet in
Morrisville, is booming.
With sales per square foot
doubled since 1994 and gross sales
tripled in the same amount of time,
it is no wonder that OFF 5TH -
Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet has
joined the wave of success by leas*
ing a space at Triangle Factory
Shops.
OFF 5TH revealed its decision to
place an outlet store near the Bugle
Boy Factory Store and The Finish
Line in the mall May 15, during an
unveiling ceremony.
"We looked at the demogr^jhics
of the growth and the influx of all
the people that are coming to the
region and to this area specifical
ly," said Ronald Covin, SOTior vice
jsident and general merchandise
manager of the New York-based
firm.
"We are bringing something that
isn’t here, something that’s
unique," Covin said. "And we’re
offoing people what we feel is ex
ceptional value-^ames that they
wouldn’t normally find in the en
vironment That’s wh^ we do."
OFF 5TH feanires American and
European design^s as well as Saks
Fifth Avenue private labels and
branded apparel for men and
women.
"We don’t know that there are too
many stores similar to [OFF 5TH]
because of the names we carry,"
Covin said. "Not that you won’t
find a suit and not that you won’t
find a pair of pants, but you wc«i’t
find them frcrni the manufacturers
that we have in the store.
"And I don’t think you’re going
to see them at the savings we of
fer," he said.
OFF Sin’s discounts range ftom
40 to 70 percent off all mer-
NEW TO MORRISVILLE-Ronald Covin of OFF 5TH announces
the firm's plans to open a store in Morrisville’s Triangle Factory
Shops. Behind him on stage are (from left to right) Alan Kofed of
OFF 5TH, Morrisville Mayor Margaret Broadwel! and Gerry Boyle,
general manager of Triangle Factory Shops.
The store sells women’s ready-to-
wear, career and casual sportswear,
dresses, coats, footwear and acces
sories. Men’s suits, spcnts coats,
sportswear, footwear, furnishings,
accessories and outerwear are also
sold at OFF 5TH.
Although Covin would not pick a
single most popular category of ap
parel with customers, he said diat
the men’s clothing department was
very successful
"We have what I think is the
finest assortment of men’s clothing
that you would find under one
roof," be said.
"SAKS carries such a name in the
industry, it’s just phenomenal that
we got them," said Alan Kofoed,
Prime Retail’s vice fffesident of de
velopment. "It’s wonderful, not
only for Prime Retail...but for the
entire area."
"We’re tremendously excited,"
Gwy Boyle, gOTeial manager at
Triangle Factory Shops, said about
OFF 5TH joining the mall. "This
has been the shot in the arm we’ve
been looking fca".
"This will probably boost this
{Koperty, as far as sales, as much as
IBM and Levi did when they came
in here 10 years ago," he said.
The mall Triangle Fxtoy Sb^s
now occupies was buiU in 1982 and
went through a numba of owners
before Prime Retail bought the
prq)erty in February, 1991. Prime
Retail closed the mall until October
while doubling the mall’s size and
changing its landscape and interior
design.
The outlet space in Triangle Fac-
uwy Shops is 239,000 square feet.
Saks will use approximately 20,000
square feet.
Boyle said that with OFF 5TH
joining the 52 outlet stores in the
mall, the move will maintain and
guarantee the shops’ position in the
maikeL
"Thtu’s one thing we’re very
serious about-continuing to attract
people."
OFF 5TH is scheduled to open in
late July.
"Tlie response has been very fa
vorable evCTywhere we go," Covin
said. "I’d be surprised if it isn’t
here."
Town eyeing
best uses
for Rover
A 1988 Range Rover seized in a
drug raid by Mwrisville Police has
been turned ovct to the local de
partment by a Wake County Supe
rior Court Judge.
Police Chief Bruce Newnam said
Assistant District Attorney Josh
Tbarrington made the request to
have the vehicle forfeited by the
owner and possession given to
Morrisville Police.
The problem now, however, is
what the department will do witii it.
TTie vehicle has been in storage
for the past 18 months, ever since U
was confiscated Jan. 16, 1995
while stopped on Airport Boule
vard when arrests were made. Ac
ceding to mechanic Mack Baker,
who has been storing the vehicle at
his garage on Church Street since it
was seized, tiie bill to date for
storage and wrecker service is
$946. Commissioners on May 13
approved paying the fee through
tte town’s ceitingency fund.
Two avenues of action are open.
The first is to repair the vehicle and
have it used by police in a fdiase of
their official activity, perh^s wUh
drug or canine weak. The second is
to sell it to someone at public auc
tion, pay Baker’s bill, then distrib-
uto the remaining monies to the
Wake County School Fund, as
directed by the court order.
The automobile has been valued
at $7,500 in its current condition
and there are no lien holders.
Whenever it is determined the
vehicle is to be sold, now or after
use by the police department, prof
its from such a sale would go to the
Wake County School Fund.
Newnam said the auto needs
some cosmetic worit, but the cost
of repair has yet to be determined.
It was pointed out that after sitting
for 18 moiths, some problems may
exist that didn’t when it was first
taken. "It was driveable when we
got it," be said.
Mayor Pro Tern Billy Sauls said
be felt the auto should be taken out
of stOTage to avoid more costs, and
that diagnostic work should be
made to find out what it will cost to
get it back in shape.
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