Urban Outfitters comes to Third.

Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC has completed a lease with Urban Outfitters Inc. at 999 Third Ave.

The lifestyle merchandise retailer signed a long-term lease for 17,000 s/fat the new luxury residential development.

Robert Futterman, CEO, and Scott Edlitz, managing director of RKF, represented building owner Manhattan Skyline Management Corp. in the transaction. Wade McDevitt, of McDevitt Co., represented Urban Outfitters. The lifestyle merchandise retailer's new store, located on Third Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets, is expected to open in spring 2005.

Urban Outfitters' space comprises the majority of the 20,000 s/f retail condominium located at the base of the building.

RKF is exclusively marketing the remaining 2,470 s/f of space in the same retail condominium.

"This will be Urban Outfitters' sixth location in Manhattan and its first on the Upper East Side," said Futterman. "With a luxury apartment building directly above the store and the area's growing new retail market, Urban can take advantage of a terrific existing customer base."

Neighboring retailers include Home Depot's new Expo Design Center and H&M, as well as Bloomingdale's flagship directly across the street.