
Courtesy Alpin Haus
On November 20, Alpin Haus held a ribbon-cutting to celebrate the completion of an expansion project spanning 15 months and nearly doubling the size of existing usable square footage at its flagship store in Amsterdam. One of the Northeast’s largest outdoor recreation retailers with six stores in the Capital Region, Hudson Valley and Northern New Jersey, Alpin Haus will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2024.
The expansion increased the ski and pool departments at the flagship store by 60 percent, to 39,600 square feet from 24,800, resulting in nearly double the amount of showroom space for these two premier divisions of the company.
“The need for the build-out was driven by growing demand during ski and pool seasons, which have increasingly begun to overlap,” said Alpin Haus President Andy Heck. “Shopping for winter sports equipment now occurs August through April and for pools and patios year-round. We’ve incorporated many exciting enhancements and made the store more experiential, including a new observation area to complement our state-of-the-art ski-tuning machine and a custom space for taking selfies featuring a chairlift backdrop.”