Burlington Stores

Burlington Stores announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters from Burlington Township, New Jersey, to 3151 Market Street in Schuylkill Yards, West Philadelphia, and will move roughly 1,600 corporate employees across the Delaware River. The company expects phased relocations to begin no earlier than late 2028 or early 2029 and eventually support at least 2,000 Philadelphia jobs within five years, with several hundred being new hires. Burlington said the move is driven by Philadelphia- and Pennsylvania-offered incentives and cited factors such as fiscal health, workforce training and infrastructure; it does not expect the headquarters move to cause an overall reduction in employment and New Jersey stores, warehouses and distribution centers will remain. The article frames this as a headquarters relocation rather than mass terminations, noting many affected employees will move rather than lose jobs, but identifies the corporate positions as leaving New Jersey and thus materially affecting the local job base.