SPORT CHALET PLANS PALMDALE OPENING.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer PALMDALE - Sporting goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport chain Sport Chalet Sport Chalet is a retailer of sporting equipment, apparel, shoes, and accessories in the United States. It operates approximately 40 company owned stores in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, with new stores opening soon in Utah, with the first at Jordan Landing. plans to open a store June 15 in The Marketplace at Palmdale shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . The 38,000-square-foot store will include a pool for taking scuba lessons, a bicycle shop, tennis, golf, and scuba shops, racket stringing, sports apparel, foot wear, and team wear. ``It's going to be terrific,'' said Claudia Reich, senior vice president of marketing for Sport Chalet. ``All of our research told us that whole area is very sports oriented.'' The Palmdale store, on 10th Street West at Technology Drive, will offer the same departments as other full service Sport Chalet stores, she said. This will be the 24th store in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, for the La Canada/Flintridge-based chain. Its nearest store to Palmdale is in Valencia. A grand opening event is scheduled for June 22-24, with sale incentives offered to the first 50 customers each day. Other grand opening activities will include a bungee trampoline trampoline Resilient sheet or web (often of nylon) supported by springs in a metal frame and used as a springboard and landing area in tumbling. Trampolining is an individual sport of acrobatic movements performed after rebounding into the air from the trampoline. , an extreme sport show with skateboarding and bicycling, a climbing wall A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with grips for hands and feet, used for climbing. Some are brick or wooden constructions, but on most modern walls, the material used is a thick multiplex board with holes drilled into it. and vendor booths. Celebrities will be on hand to sign autographs. Fish expert Ron Kovach, who has radio and television shows, will offer a fishing seminar. Sport Chalet was recently named as one of the top 200 small companies by Forbes Magazine. The new store will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sundays. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The Sport Chalet in Palmdale is scheduled to open on June 15. Charles F. Bostwick/Staff Photographer |
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