Southwick Clothing is moving to Haverhill

Tony haberdasher Southwick Clothing is leasing nearly 92,000 square feet of space at 20 Computer Drive in Haverhill, a broker involved in the transaction said.

The broker is Klemmer Associates LLC of Winchester, a full service commercial real estate firm.

Southwick was recently purchased by Retail Brand Alliance, which also owns the Brooks Brothers clothing brand, Klemmer noted in a press release. (A photo from the Brooks Brothers online catalog is at left; a photo from the Southwick website is at right.)

Klemmer said it represented the landlord of 20 Computer Drive in the transaction, Suffolk Advisors, a developer and a real estate investor based in Lexington.

The release also noted that Southwick was represented in the transaction by a team from Grubb & Ellis, a commercial real estate advisory firm with headquarters in Chicago.

The release included a quote from Tyler Ewing of Grubb & Ellis.

"Southwick's former facility was on five floors in an outdated facility," Ewing said. "The move from Lawrence to Haverhill puts the company all on one level in a relatively new, state-of-the-art facility."
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)