INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Bargain seekers on a budget with a taste for upscale leather accessories may get their cake and eat it too just in time for the holiday shopping season if designer brand Coach opens an off-price factory store at the Vero Fashion Outlets in October as indicated on the Coach corporate Web site, www.coach.com.

But officials at Miami Beach area-based Taubco, a real estate company which owns and operates the Vero Fashion Outlets, would not confirm a Coach Factory Store will open.

“There hasn’t been a signed lease (with Coach) and we have no comment at this time,” Laura Tauber, managing director of Taubco, told her assistant, who relayed the statement.

The Web site’s state-by-state listing of Coach Factory Stores notes a “Coach Vero Beach” location at 1824 94th Drive in space C-100 – C-110 set for an October opening. That address is the site of Vero Fashion Outlets at the intersection of State Road 60 near Interstate 95 in Vero Beach.

Coach, founded in New York City in 1941 as a family-run business, is a maker and seller of fine leather handbags, wallets, footwear and other fashion wear and accessories for men and women.

Coach’s factory outlet stores sell discontinued and irregular inventory as well as specially manufactured-for-factory-store goods at 10 to 50 percent off its retail store prices.

Phone calls made to the Coach corporate headquarters on the status of a Coach Factory Store at the Vero Fashion Outlets store were not returned.
Barbara Yoresh, TCPalm.com