GRANDVILLE – Outdoor goods retailer Cabela’s will open next spring on the east end of the Rivertown Mall retail corridor in a new 380,000-square-foot retail center being developed by CWD Real Estate Investment of Grand Rapids on a 43-acre site purchased from X-Rite in 2010.
The real estate investment company is owned by Dan DeVos, Sam Cummings and Scott Wierda. It will be the outdoors, gear and apparel giant’s second retail store in Michigan, joining the Dundee.
Plans to open the store in Walker several years never got off the ground despite a groundswell of support. The project was put on indefinite hold in 2010 after the company had been eyeing a property bordered by I-96, Four Mile Road, Walker and Bristol Avenues NW. It was part of a proposed 242-acre development to be anchored by Cabela’s. That development was expected to add more 3,600 jobs over 10 years.
Although the Grandville store will be less than half the size of the 225,000 square foot store in Dundee store, it will feature the retailer’s trademark style with an exterior of log construction, stonework, wood siding and metal roofing. A large glass storefront will allow customers to view much of the store?s interior as they approach the building, company said.
The store, which is expected to employ about 200 full- and part-time employees, will also feature a Boat Shop, Gun Library, Bargain Cave and Fudge Shop.
The new Michigan store is part of major expansion that will expand the retailer’s nationwide footprint.
This year, the retailer plans to open stores in Wichita, Kan.; Tulalip, Wash.; Rogers, Ark.; Charleston, W.Va.; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; and Union Gap, Wash.
Cabela?s also plans to open stores in Columbus, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky., in 2013.
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