Dick’s Sporting Goods announced the grand opening of seven new locations, including its second Dick’s House of Sport in Knoxville, TN on June 4, one relocated Dick’s Sporting Goods, two newly redesigned Golf Galaxy locations, and three Warehouse Sale locations.
The retailer also announced additional experiential in-store Soccer Shops to another 47 stores in June.
These new additions will bring approximately 450 collective jobs to communities through the hiring of full-time, part-time and temporary employees for the stores.
Dick’s House of Sport store in Knoxville will feature a 24,000-square-foot outdoor turf field and running track, a rock-climbing wall, a batting cage with HitTrax technology, golf hitting bays with TrackMan simulators, a putting green, a “House of Cleats” that will seasonally rotate product, a health and wellness destination, and a consolidated service area for breaking in gloves, stringing lacrosse sticks and building/repairing bikes. The location is at West Town Mall, at 7600 Kingston Pike. The grand opening runs from June 4-6. Earlier this year, the company opened its first Dick’s House of Sport location in Victor, NY.
Redesigned Golf Galaxy stores will open in Salt Lake City, UT at 6148 South State Street and in Houston at 5078 Richmond Avenue. The updated stores will provide access to TrackMan and BioMech Golf technologies, hitting bays and custom fittings. The grand opening runs from June 5-6.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Warehouse Sale locations will open in Towne Center Prado in Kennesaw, GA; Fenton Commons in Fenton, MO; and The Commons in Knoxville, TN. The stores offer deep discounts on footwear and apparel with some merchandise at 70 percent off or more. The grand for the Kennesaw and Fenton locations will take place on June 16; the Knoxville location will hold its opening on June 30.
Following the store openings, Dick’s will have 731 Dick’s Sporting Goods stores nationwide in 47 states and 98 Golf Galaxy stores nationwide in 35 states.
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