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ADAIRSVILLE, GA-Cabela's Inc., plans to open a 165,000-sf showroom by yearend 2007 in this Bartow County town, 45 miles northwest of Downtown Atlanta. The 45-year-old international retailer of hunting, fishing and outdoor recreational equipment will build the store on about 40 acres of a 400-acre development near Interstate 75 and GA 140 at the Union Grove Interchange.

Cabela's investment in its first store in Georgia and the Southeast will be "in the $30-million to $40-million range," a Cabela's spokesperson, tells GlobeSt.com. "We are only at the starting design stage now and have no floor plans or definite (development) cost numbers yet."

The spokesperson says escalating construction costs for labor and material still have to be incorporated into a final estimated development cost. Atlanta area construction sources tell GlobeSt.com the estimate is "in line" with estimated hard construction costs of about $230 to $250 per sf for a store of Cabela's stature. "They won't be putting up a Wal-Mart-styled building so their costs are going to be appreciably higher," an Atlanta general contractor familiar with the construction of specialty retail locations tells GlobeSt.com.