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Garner Ground Zero? Bass Pro and Cabela’s looking at Triangle Sites

Jul 14, 2006 @ 01:02 am by Moose

Bass Pro in Las Vegas

Ever since the Charlotte area got a Bass Pro one of the hottest questions is when will the Triangle get a big outdoor retailer? The growth in the area and the popularity of outdoor sports it seems like it would be a perfect match. White Oak shopping center in Garner is certainly a very hot area and it’s not surprising to hear that it’s getting some serious looks from the big retailers.The I95 corridor is also another rumored spot and has been for years.

GARNER - Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops - two of the biggest names in outdoor gear retailing - are both looking in or near the Triangle for sites to build mega-stores that become destinations for tourists and shoppers alike.

Bass Pro Shops opened a store north of Charlotte in the late 1990s and has been scouting the Triangle for a second North Carolina location for at least three years. Retail sources say Bass has renewed its interest in the Interstate 40/I-95 intersection in Smithfield, as well as a location at the White Oak Crossing retail power center area at Interstate 40 and U.S. 70 in Garner.

Will we get one or both? Who knows but we can dream

Cabela’s Wheeling WVA

”I can say that we have had some real estate folks looking in North Carolina, although I can say the same about several other states in the Southeast,” says James Powell, a spokesman for Cabela’s.
Bass Pro Shops spokesman Larry Whiteley says talk about a new North Carolina store is just that - “all talk and rumors right now.”
Brenda Compton with Hartwell Realty in Garner says she heard the Cabela’s and Bass talk while at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual conference in Las Vegas in May.

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Besides myself I’m sure my UPS man would be glad if they opened a store up here in the Triangle. Yes that’s me wearing a Bass Pro Shirt inside Cabela’s in Wheeling WVA