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Grab your Gore-Tex jacket and lace up your hiking boots — the popular MEC outdoor store is opening a second local store in South Edmonton Common this fall.

The new 35,000-square-foot outlet will be about 30 per cent bigger than the current store on 102nd Avenue, offering a larger selection of clothing and technical gear for sports, camping and climbing, chief financial officer Sandy Treagus said Thursday.

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There will also be a full-service shop for bikes and skiing, equipment rentals and a community room for local outdoor clubs and the Edmonton region’s 200,000 MEC members, he said.

“It’s a mature market for us. We obviously have a lot of members in the area. Putting another store in the south serves them,” he said.

“We feel there’s a great opportunity.”

The store is expected to open before the former Mountain Equipment Co-op is set to shift its downtown operations from the current site to a new building in the nearby brewery district next spring.