A couple of weeks ago in one of my Sunday City Talk columns, I mentioned that Free People was likely to open a store on Broughton Street here in Savannah. I did not have any confirmation of that at the time, but the sign application was heard at the Historic Review Board meeting on June 12.
Savannah’s Free People will be at 217 West Broughton St., right next to Urban Outfitters, in the space last occupied by the Clothing Warehouse.
Free People is under the same corporate umbrella as Urban Outfitters, so the location seems more than apt. Anthropologie, which is slated for the southeast corner of Congress and Montgomery, is also under that same corporate leadership.
Free People was actually the original name of the store that evolved into Urban Outfitters. Free People was reborn as a woman’s boutique just after the turn of the century.
Here’s an image from last week’s submittal to the HRB:
