Academy Sports + Outdoors plans to open in Pocono Crossing in May. Next year, a TJ Maxx and Homegoods should open at the Midlothian shopping center (Jack Jacobs Photo))
A few years after opening its first local store in Short Pump, Academy Sports + Outdoors is about to add a location to Chesterfield.
The retail chain of sport items plans to open a new 63,000 square feet store at the Pocono Crossing shopping center next month, according to a company spokesperson.
The new space is at 10400 Midlothian Turnpike and was previously occupied by a Burlington store.
The Academy offers clothing, shoes, equipment and equipment for sports and outdoor activities such as fishing and campsite. He sells products from Nike, Yeti, Carhartt and others, and internal private brand brands such as Magellan outdoors, mosaic and freely.
The company’s stores also provide services such as mounting the beacon on firearms and the winding of fishing titles. The academy’s locations sell hunting and fishing permits.
Academy currently has three stores in Virginia, with locations in a short pumpChristiansburg and Fredericksburg. He plans to open a location by Virginia Beach, according to his website. The short pump store opened its doors in the short pump area in the summer of 2022.
The listed company based on Texas says it is one of the largest sports items in the country’s sport, with more than 300 stores in 21 states. In a press release at the end of March, Academy said she intended to open 20 to 25 stores during the 2025 fiscal year.
The Academy is not the only new store to come to Pocono Crossing. Reduced prices TJ Maxx and Homegoods should open the center next year, according to a recent press release from Big V Property Group, the owner of the shopping center.
The TJ Maxx would occupy a space of nearly 29,000 square feet carved in the old showcase of Burlington, between the new academic space and the world of martial arts. Burlington has since moved 11609 Midlothian Turnpike In the Crossing Towne shopping center.
Homegoods is expected to open in a space of almost 25,000 square feet, part of which had been previously occupied by the Hong Kong King buffet. The longtime buffet restaurant is now closed. Since this week, there was a panel displayed at its entrance which said that the restaurant intended to move to an unrecognized location.
Big V announced earlier this month the imminent arrivals of the three stores in Pocono Crossing. The real estate company said in its announcement that the redevelopment and fractionation of the old Burlington space were intended to help Pocono Crossing follow changes in the retail industry.
“As the retail trade has evolved, there are very few single tenants who seek to occupy a box of nearly 100,000 square feet, so the strategically subdivision of this space allows us to accommodate current retail trends and retailers in demand without the risks and delays that can be involved in the construction of the Earth,” IX in a prepared declaration.
Pocono Crossing consists of 195,000 square feet of commercial space, which is divided between the main retail sales band of 181,000 square feet which belongs to Big V since 2019 and two outparcels under different owners. The other Big V tenants include the liquidation of Chuck E. Cheese and Blue Streak. The outputs of the center are occupied by the jack jack and Whistle Express because washing.