Retail

Academy Sports sets opening date for store on east side

By Jerry Siebenmark

The Wichita Eagle
Academy Sports opened this store on the west side in 2012, just south of 29th and Maize. Now it’s getting ready to open its east-side store.
Academy Sports opened this store on the west side in 2012, just south of 29th and Maize. Now it’s getting ready to open its east-side store. Fernando Salazar The Wichita Eagle file photo

Academy Sports and Outdoors has set an opening date for its east Wichita store.

The store at Greenwich and K-96 will open on Friday, April 24, Academy spokesman Allan Rojas said in an e-mail to The Eagle.

The 71,000-square-foot store on the east side of Greenwich and south of K-96 will be the Texas-based retailer’s second store in Wichita.

In 2012 it opened a 73,000-square-foot store at 2710 N. Maize in northwest Wichita.

The east Wichita store is expected to employ about 150 people.

This story was originally published March 31, 2015 at 9:46 AM with the headline "Academy Sports sets opening date for store on east side."

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