Lifestyles Sports expands with new Farmingdale facility

 

As family-owned Lifestyles Sports approaches half-a-century in enterprise, its second technology is guiding the corporate’s newest enlargement. 

The sporting items, workwear and customized attire retailer bought an 18,500-square-foot constructing on 1.39 acres at 110 Broadhollow Road in Farmingdale for $3.65 million. The business property was previously occupied by dwelling furnishings retailer Safavieh. 

The Farmingdale acquisition was the newest in myriad actual property strikes all through Lifestyle Sports’ lengthy historical past. It started when the husband-and-wife workforce of Mike and Valerie Kruter opened their first retailer known as The Clothesline within the Canarsie part of Brooklyn in 1979. 

The Kruters relocated the enterprise to a 1,500-square-foot retail area in Wantagh in 1993 after which doubled their area by taking the shop subsequent door and renaming it Lifestyles Sports. In 2008, the household acquired a Merrick enterprise known as Robinhood Clothing and 6 years later they added one other 1,500 sq. toes. 

In 2020, the Kruter children, brothers Brandon and Andrew and sister Taylor, had been instrumental in extra enlargement, as Lifestyle Sports and its associates Robinhood and Long Island Scrubs moved into the area previously occupied by the Wantagh 5&10 retailer. The household then acquired a property on Newbridge Road in Bellmore for its rising customizing enterprise, the place they moved their manufacturing of silk screening, embroidery, laser engraving and transfers. 

Now that a part of Lifestyles Sports will probably be increasing and relocating to the Kruters new Farmingdale constructing. 

“The reason for our expansion into Farmingdale is that the new location provides us with three times the space—growing from 6,000 square feet to 18,500 square feet,” Andrew Kruter informed LIBN. “With the additional room and new machinery, we’ll be able to increase production capacity and turn jobs around faster to better meet our customers’ needs. Moving to Route 110 also places us at the center of Long Island, allowing us to more conveniently serve customers from every part of the Island. We’re excited about this growth, and we invite you to stop in and check out the new facility. We look forward to continuing to serve our community.”  

Lifestyles Sports presents a variety of sporting items, footwear, attire, equipment, medical scrubs and extra, together with customized uniforms, clothes and different merchandise for sports activities groups and companies. 

The new Farmingdale facility, which is able to embody a showroom with its manufacturing operations, is predicted to open quickly. 

Jesse Moss of Oxford Property Group represented Lifestyles Sports, whereas Jimmy Aug and Stu Fagen of Sabre Real Estate Advisors represented the vendor, the Safavieh household, within the Farmingdale sale transaction.