CAMBRIDGE — A new lingerie shop will open in the space occupied until recently by Rosalind's Lingerie, a popular and long-running store in Cambridge.

Janice Welch, owner of Just for You Fine Lingerie in Waterloo, is taking over the shop at 30 Main St. in the Galt area of Cambridge as a second location for her business.

Although the store will operate under the Just for You name, it will have the same staff, including Rosalind's founder, Rosalind Hart, 73, who had been working there part-time.

The products are also similar, Welch said. "Other than having a different name, the store will be much the same."

Welch started Just for You in uptown Waterloo in 2007 after coming to Canada from the United Kingdom and finding there weren't many stores that carried bras in her size. Just for You carries swimsuits as well as lingerie.

Welch says she was approached by the Cambridge building's landlord when the owner of Rosalind's decided to close the store after 35 years in business.

Rosalind's most recent owner, Tara Campbell, said she closed the store because she needed more time with her young family.

Welch said she had been thinking of opening a second store. When she learned that Rosalind's was closing and had longtime staff members there who wanted to carry on, it made sense to open there.

"It was a no-brainer, really, because the hardest thing is to find staff," Welch said. "This store had been running for many years and had customers, and the staff wanted to stay."

She doesn't have an opening date yet, but it will be sometime in February.

- Rosalind's will be missed