(FORTUNE Magazine) – Clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has a new $130 million, 300-acre campus outside Columbus, Ohio, and "campus" is the defining word. There's a bonfire pit, gym, ATM, drop box for photo processing, and cafeteria (with a chalkboard calendar listing staff birthdays). Workers sit at tables that resemble library carrels more than desks. CEO Mike Jeffries says the atmosphere emphasizes teamwork, but from the looks of things, it might be more about making the employees--a vast majority of whom seem to be straight out of school--feel at home. To celebrate, the company flew out journalists for the corporate equivalent of a frat party: We joined the employees in standing around the bonfire, drinking beer drawn from kegs, watching a band (spotted earlier doing tequila shots in the gym's locker room). Jeffries, in shorts and flip-flops, pointed out that the high-style campus brings home the idea that the target customer is a college student, and for anyone under 25 it's probably a comforting place. For anyone older, it's a chilling reminder that the world is only getting younger.

--Erik Torkells