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FREEPORT – Old Navy, the large clothing retailer known for its creative TV commercials, is the latest major retailer to call Freeport home.

Owned by Gap Inc., Old Navy will open a large outlet store in the Freeport Village Station this spring. Once the store opens, the Freeport Village Station will be at full capacity, said Keith McBride, the executive director of the Freeport Economic Development Corp.

The Old Navy outlet will be the second one in Maine, as the company already operates an outlet store in Kittery. The company also operates retail stores at the Maine Mall in South Portland, as well as Brunswick, Augusta and Bangor.

McBride said the Old Navy outlet will take over the Corelle Corningware outlet space on the side of the retail complex closest to the garage, facing Mill Street. He added that the Corelle outlet is not going to close, instead moving into a vacant space next to the L.L. Bean outlet store. Once all the moves are made and Old Navy is open, McBride said, the shops at the Freeport Village Station will be at 100 percent capacity.

“That’s a good thing,” he said.

McBride said Old Navy would be larger than the Corelle Corningware space, but he did not have an exact square footage.

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“It’s a big space and that’s Old Navy’s business model,” he said. “They don’t do small stores.”

The news that Old Navy is coming to Freeport is good for the town, McBride said. He added that the fact that the Freeport Village Station, which opened in 2009, is full shows that the money spent in developing the complex, which is owned by Boston-based Berenson Associates, was well spent.

“It shows the desirability of being located centrally in Freeport and it shows the investment that was made there was a financially viable one,” McBride said.

The Corelle Corningware outlet will move elsewhere in the Freeport Village Station to make way for a new Old Navy outlet.   

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