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Scheels sporting goods superstore joining Nebraska Furniture Mart in Texas
Maria Halkias
May 4, 2016

Scheels, a Fargo, N.D.-based chain of 27 sporting goods superstores in 12 states, is coming to Texas.

The store will be 300,000 square-feet, or about 12 times the size of a traditional sporting goods big box stores such as Dick’s and Academy.

The store won’t open until 2020, but the announcement is a big catch for the $1.5 billion Grandscape development on Highway 121 in The Colony with so many competing projects in the works nearby including the Dallas Cowboys Star project in Frisco and Legacy West under construction around the site of the new Toyota headquarters in Plano.

CEO Steve M. Scheel said the company has been scoping out Texas for 10 years. The store will be its biggest Scheels, he said. Construction will begin in 2018.

Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns Nebraska Furniture Mart and Grandscape, said he’s “very excited to have Scheels” in the project.

“The Scheels experience will bring millions of visitors to Grandscape furthering our vision of making this development one of the best in the United States.”

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