There’s nothing yet outside the long cluster of warehouses, where 1015-A sits just off Collier Road, to indicate this is where Stephen Glasgow and Matt Watson do business.
But inside the 12,500-square-foot space, there is no question that this is Country Club Prep, the fast-growing online retailer founded in 2012 in Watson’s unfinished basement.
It is filled almost to capacity with shelves and brown boxes stocked full of all manner of preppy clothing and accessories from polo shirts to cocktail dresses, hats and T-shirts.
Just last month, the company, which is all about making Internet shopping a one-stop venture sans any shipping fees, opened its first brick-and-mortar store on the campus of the University of Virginia, where Glasgow and Watson earned their law degrees.
They started with 17 brands on the site but quickly grew to 80 by December 2012, just nine months later.
“We’d go to our day jobs and after reviewing legal briefs, talk to customers on our lunch breaks about seersucker pants on our cellphones, then after we got home pack and ship orders well into the night,” Watson said.
By last September, Country Club Prep had grown from two shelves in his Atlanta basement to three-quarters of Watson’s two-story home.
“My wife was done,” the 32-year-old father of two said. “We had to move.”
And so they did.
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