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Levenger store stays in South Florida,
moves to Town Center at Boca Raton this fall
DELRAY BEACH, FL · April 18, 2007--–The Levenger store is staying in South Florida but moving closer to where many customers shop. The upmarket retailer will move its Delray Beach store to Town Center at Boca Raton in early fall. It will be situated in the section of the mall between Neiman Marcus and Macy’s, across from the Apple store.
“We wanted to be in a more convenient location for more shoppers, and Town Center is ideal,” says Steve Leveen, the CEO and co-founder with his wife, Lori Granger Leveen, of Levenger. “It’s also important to us that we continue to have a store in South Florida. This is home for us, and we’re grateful to the many customers who have shopped with us over the years.”
“We welcome Levenger to Town Center,” says Sam Hosn, General Manager, Town Center at Boca Raton. “They are a perfect complement for the upscale shops our customers expect to see at Town Center. We are proud Levenger has selected Town Center as their new home and look forward to sharing their products with Boca shoppers.”
Exclusive line of merchandise
Levenger has signed a long-term lease with the mall and will stock its new store with its full product assortment. The company designs and creates almost all of its merchandise, from leather goods and home-office furnishings to high-quality papers for note-taking and fine pens that focus on functionality.
The exclusivity imbues Levenger products with a distinct cachet—but what keeps customers coming back, says Leveen, is how well the products work for them. “Top-quality materials are part of the equation,” he says. “The rest is design that’s truly useful to the customer.”
Custom offerings ‘from the inside out’
So useful, in fact, that it’s often a custom fit. Levenger is the only company that creates custom notebooks for customers, using its award-winning Circa system of note-taking. The company also helps customers choose writing instruments based on the different kinds of writing they do. The Town Center store will feature both a Notes Bar and a Pen Bar for customizing selections, much the way the baristas in a coffee bar would.
“We call it designing from the inside out,” says Leveen. “First make the inner workings work for each customer, then wrap the package in beautiful materials.” Levenger briefbags and totes have this same Inside IQ, with pockets and compartments that anticipate their owners’ needs. The company uses only the top grades of full-grain leather for its assortment of bags, folios, wallets and notebooks. Most desks and tables are made from top-quality American cherry veneers.
Levenger paper is milled to the company’s specifications, which yields a paper that’s stronger, weightier, brighter and smoother than typical office-supply paper. The company refers to its note paper as “notationery,” because of its resemblance to good stationery.
Till then, the Delray store is open
Levenger has been headquartered in South Florida since 1989, when the company moved its operation for its national catalog of “Tools for Serious Readers” from the Boston area to Delray Beach.
The corporate offices will remain at this location, at 420 South Congress Avenue, and the Delray Beach store will stay open at that address until the Boca store opens.
Levenger also has stores in Boston, Chicago and Tysons Corner, Virginia. An outlet store is in Memphis.
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