Construction Underway on Academy Distribution Center Expansion in Texas

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Academy Sports & Outdoors Limited (Katy, Texas), one of the nation’s largest sporting goods retailers, is currently underway with an expansion of a distribution center in Katy, Texas. Construction began on the 368,154 square foot expansion of the existing one million square feet distribution center along with the installation of racking and conveyors in the fall of 2005 and is expected to be completed by the fall of 2006. Academy is expanding to support the opening of additional stores in the Southeastern region.

Comanche Contractors Incorporated, located in Houston, Texas, was awarded the general construction contract for the expansion.

Academy Sports & Outdoors, headquartered in Katy, Texas, was originally founded in 1938 as a San Antonio tire shop and moved to business surplus items in 1973. They are a privately owned company and are considered to be the fourth largest chain of retail sporting goods store in the United States. They employ approximately 4,000 employees and in 1998 included sales of $435 million. The company is considered to be one of the top sporting goods stores in the United States with more than 80 stores in 10 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas).

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