REI Co-op will open in Ithaca, New York in summer time 2024. The shop will supply a large assortment of attire, gear and experience for tenting, biking, operating, health, climbing, paddling, climbing, snowsports and extra. As well as, licensed mechanics will tune and restore gear by means of a full-service bike, ski and snowboard store.
“We stay up for being a useful resource to the outside neighborhood, together with 23,600 REI members, and people who are lively throughout the Finger Lakes area. As we speak, our nearest retailer is greater than 90 miles away from Ithaca in Rochester,” mentioned Sonny Russell, REI regional director. “As we do in each neighborhood the place we’ve got a presence, REI can even set up partnerships with nonprofits doing unimaginable work to guard pure locations and create belonging within the open air.”
Retailer Details
- Handle: South Meadow Market at 742 South Meadow Road, Suite 200 Ithaca, NY 14850
- Retailer Dimension: roughly 17,000 sq. ft
- Options: Full-service bike store and ski and snowboard store, purchase online-pick up in retailer, and curbside pickup
- REI membership: 23,600 co-op members in Ithaca, 708,000 members in New York
- Closest REI retailer: Rochester, New York (92 miles away, opened 2017)
- REI shops in New York State: Carle Place (250 miles away, opened 2011); Huntington Station (260 miles away, opening fall 2023), Manhattan/SoHo (224 miles away, opened 2011), and Rochester (92 miles away, opened 2017)
REI’s philanthropy efforts are centered on the assumption that the outside needs to be a spot the place everybody may be themselves, entry alternatives, and join with their neighborhood. Regionally, REI workers establish regional organizations whose missions give attention to bettering entry to outside recreation locations, in addition to these connecting close by underrepresented communities to time open air. Extra broadly, the co-op companions with state and nationwide nonprofits that advocate for insurance policies to guard the outside, for everybody. Final 12 months, these mixed efforts equated to $6.9 million invested in 503 nonprofits. REI retailer groups can also suggest native nonprofits to obtain help from the REI Fund. To be taught extra about recipients in New York go to https://www.reifund.org/grantees/places.
Be a part of the REI workforce
REI expects to rent roughly 50 workers for Ithaca. Candidates fascinated with becoming a member of the workforce can apply on-line at REI.com/jobs and be taught in regards to the normal hiring timeline. Candidates can set a job alert on the co-op’s profession web site to be notified when positions submit. All workers obtain all kinds of advantages, together with beneficiant product and repair reductions, aggressive pay and retirement contributions.
