HOWARD – First it was Gander Mountain, then Gander Open air. Now the retail house at 2323 Woodman Drive will quickly turn out to be a Tenting World retail outlet.
Gander Mountain, 2323 Woodman Drive, closed in August of 2017 after the enterprise declared chapter. Camping World Holdings purchased Gander Mountain’s assets and started re-opening shops, 74 in whole, in 2018.
The Howard location, rebranded as Gander Open air, opened in June earlier than finally closing once more.
Now, the constructing is being primed for a 3rd try as an out of doors and tenting items retailer — this time with better concentrate on campers and RVs as a Tenting World retail outlet.
The shop will promote each new and used RVs and campers, and camper equipment. It additionally will embrace service bays for repairing RVs.
“They went away from the searching and fishing,” mentioned Kevin Barnes, a venture supervisor for DBS Group, the overall contractor in command of the venture.
“They acquired (Gander Mountain) and it simply did not work like they hoped,” Barnes mentioned. “In order that they’re reemerging themselves, reinventing themselves.”
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To make room for the campers and RVs, Barnes mentioned, they’re putting in a lot of overhead doorways which is able to permit merchandise to be displayed contained in the constructing. They’re additionally transforming the car parking zone to accommodate LP gasoline filling stations and a dump station .
In whole, Barnes estimated the renovation will price roughly $2 million.
The shop is predicted to open in July. Nonetheless, Barnes mentioned the opening could also be delayed if gear would not ship or arrive in time.
The Camping World website lists a Inexperienced Bay location as “Coming late 2022!”
Alexandria Bursiek Kloehn is a enterprise reporter for the Inexperienced Bay Press-Gazette. You’ll be able to attain her at [email protected] or view her Twitter profile at @bursiekkloehn.