Dick’s Home of Sport options issues like climbing partitions and batting cages along with athletic attire and kit. (Courtesy Dick’s Sporting Items)
The long-vacant former Nordstrom constructing at Quick Pump City Middle has scored a brand new tenant.
Dick’s Sporting Items is teeing up a location of its comparatively new experiential Home of Sport idea for the dormant two-story, 120,000-square-foot division retailer at 11812 W. Broad St., in keeping with current filings submitted to Henrico.
Home of Sport places characteristic services like batting cages, rock-climbing partitions and outside fields along with retail gross sales of attire and footwear discovered on the typical Dick’s retailer.
The mission deliberate on the Nordstrom property consists of “two-story intestine renovations” and would contain a “enjoying subject and retail,” in keeping with a allow filed final week that recognized the tenant as Dick’s. One other submitting earlier this month described the mission as a Home of Sport location that may characteristic an outside subject constructed within the car parking zone of the mall.
Extra particulars concerning the mission have been unavailable, as was an anticipated opening date. The Dick’s press staff didn’t reply to a request for touch upon Friday. It’s unclear whether or not the two-story Dick’s Sporting Items that’s at present open at Quick Pump City Middle would proceed to function after the Home of Sport opens.
Nordstrom exited its former house at Quick Pump City Middle in 2020. (Jack Jacobs picture)
Home of Sport is a reasonably new and rising idea for Pennsylvania-based Dick’s. The primary Home of Sport opened in Victor, New York, 4 years in the past. There at the moment are 22 places, together with one in Chesapeake, listed on Dick’s web site.
In its 2021 announcement concerning the debut of Home of Sport, Dick’s described it as an idea that may “discover the way forward for retail by means of multi-sport experiences inside and out of doors the shop.”
Home of Sport places additionally characteristic golf professional retailers and companies like bike restore. The corporate additionally positions the shops as venues for personal occasions and birthday events.
Nordstrom exited its anchor house at Quick Pump mall in 2020, and the next yr the mall’s house owners bought the building from Nordstrom for $3.2 million. Nordstrom had been among the many authentic shops at Quick Pump City Middle when it opened in 2003, and its closing capped off a 17-year run on the mall.
Dick’s isn’t the one retailer plotting a brand new retailer at Quick Pump City Middle. A Lego Store can also be deliberate to open on the mall.
