Cabela's Plans Estimated $40M Investment with First Georgia Store

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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.”