* Specialty outdoor retailer REI Co-op (Kent, Wash.) has opened a store at the Gates of Prosper shopping center in Prosper, Texas. Located about 40 miles north of downtown Dallas, it joins four other REIs in that metropolitan market, in Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano and Southlake. The largest consumer co-op in the U.S., REI has 25 million members served by a network of just under 200 stores.
* Outdoor boots/apparel/equipment seller Timberland (Stratham, N.H.) plans to open its first three stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex later this year, reports The Dallas Morning-News. The stores are slated at…..