After nearly 20 years at the same location at 10300 Perkins Road, Young Fashions Uniform Outfitters is moving to 11111 Coursey Blvd. Owner Tanya Kennedy, who sold the Perkins location to Ethan Allen, says Young Fashions will complete its move to Coursey Boulevard by the end of this month. Young Fashions never used more than 30,000 square feet of the 54,000 square feet inside the Perkins Road store, Kennedy says, and will be more comfortable in the 20,000 square feet at its new location. “We really don’t need all that space in the back, which is a warehouse,” Kennedy says. Kennedy sold the old store location in late August. The new Young Fashions location—across the street from The Chimes East, between Cedarcrest Avenue and South Sherwood Forest Boulevard—was formerly the Rug Gallery and a golf store, Kennedy says. The Ethan Allen furniture store on Florida Boulevard near Cortana Mall will move to Young Fashions’ old location by March, she says. An Ethan Allen representative was not available to provide comment by this afternoon’s deadline. Young Fashions also has stores in New Orleans, Lafayette and Alexandria. Kennedy says she bought the store in 1993 and that Ernest Dampf opened Young Fashions on Perkins in 1951. The store expanded its business with school uniforms in the 1960s after nuns approached Dampf about carrying the parochial inventory, Kennedy says. —Adam Pearson
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