Academy Sports + Outdoors goes ground up with new 63,000-square-foot location

San Antonio mainstay Academy Sports + Outdoors hasn’t opened a new location in years. But with San Antonio’s growing population, increasing competition from other sporting good retailers and a slew of emerging neighborhood hotspots throughout the city, Academy has put plans in motion to build its ninth San Antonio location.

Starting this October, the retailer will begin construction on a 62,942-square-foot store at 7503 S. Zarzamora St. with adjacent walkways, truck dock and a compactor pad. Work is expected to wrap up in April 2016, which means the store could open sometime in the second quarter of the year. Academy is planning on spending $1.5 million on the ground-up construction.

Not including its Zarzamora location, existing Academy stores have an average appraisal value of about $3.6 million.

Click to read entire article: Academy Sports + Outdoors goes ground up with new 63,000-square-foot location (San Antonio Business Journal, 08-03-15)