SPORT CHALET TO OPEN PALMDALE STORE.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - 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. , the La Canada Flintridge-based 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 giant, will open a store in the Palmdale Marketplace, officials announced Wednesday. Sport Chalet will build a 38,000-square-foot store at the south end of the 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 , located on 10th Street West south of Avenue P. The exact time frame for the store's construction was not immediately known, but preliminary grading work is already under way, said Danny Roberts Danny Roberts (born July 19, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is best known for appearing on in 2000. He started a relationship with Paul Dill, who was a captain in the US Army at the time, stationed in Vicenza, Italy. Because of the U.S. , Palmdale's director of economic development. The Sport Chalet announcement marks a continuing surge of retailers' interest in the shopping center. A Linens 'N' Things store opened in April and a Barnes and Noble bookstore opened earlier this month. A 30,000-square-foot Ross Dress for Less is expected to open in late fall and a 24,000-square-foot Staples store will be added in late fall or early 2001. ``We are on a roll right now and we are going to ride it as long as we can,'' Roberts said. Interest in Palmdale - particularly the west side - picked up after Dillard's decided to open its first 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, store at the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. . The upscale Dillard's is a respected player in the retail industry, and other chains took a look at Palmdale when they heard Dillard's was moving there, officials said. Roberts, who is at a retail industry conference in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , said there is a great deal of interest in Palmdale and that more deals are expected. Calls to Sport Chalet were not returned. The shopping center's developer, Gary Safady, and the broker representing the center were also at the retail industry conference in Las Vegas and did not return phone calls. The shopping center already has a Target department store, a Lowe's home improvement store, and a Best Buy electronics store. Safady plans to add more shops and restaurants on freestanding pads located along 10th Street West and two other pads along Technology Drive. |
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