Over the last weekend Englewood,CO. based sporting goods chain retailer , Sports Authority , announced the plan to liquidate and close down their remaining locations. The comes a negative news for the long struggling company who had originally planned to close only a portion of their store and re-structure the rest .
It is also negative news for the Spokane / Coeur d' Alene area the chain currently operates stores in Spokane, Spokane Valley & Coeur d' Alene. There is no set final day of operation or information about how many jobs will be lost in our area.
Sports Authority's local locations can be found at:
200 W. Hanley Ave. Coeur d' Alene ,ID
Another point of bad news from the Sports Authority closures is in Coeur d' Alene area . The store there sat in anchor space for the not so busy Silver Lake Mall and the mall might have issue refilling the large anchor space. No news about what businesses might replace any of the Sports Authority store spaces here.
More information on Sports Authority , can be found on their website-
Http://www.sportsauthority.com