Cabela's to open new retail store in Rogers by Oct 14
18 Aug '05
3 min read
Quality outdoor clothing and hunting accessories retailer Cabela's will open its newest destination retail store in Rogers, Minn., on Friday, October 14, 2005.
More than six million visitors are expected to visit the Rogers store annually, making it the second largest tourist attraction in the state.Only the Mall of America is expected to draw more visitors.Cabela's 150,000- square-foot store in Owatonna, Minn., which opened in 1998 and attracts 4.5 million visitors each year, is currently the No. 2 tourist attraction. Cabela's also operates a 59,000-square-foot store in East Grand Forks, Minn., which opened in 1999.
The 185,000-square-foot store in Rogers is being built on approximately 40 acres of a 55-acre site about 10 miles northwest of Minneapolis near the intersection of Interstate 94 and Minnesota Highway 101. Typically, the building of a Cabela's is a major impetus for additional area development that includes complementary businesses such as hotels, restaurants and other travel-related services. Shane Etzwiler is the store manager and expects to hire up to 500 employees to staff the store.
The retail store will feature:
- extensive museum-quality dioramas, which re-create animals in action in their native habitats;
- two-story Conservation Mountain, complete with running waterfalls and streams, a trout pond and wild game displays in their distinctive habitats;
- huge 45,000-gallon, walk-through aquarium, stocked with freshwater fish, including those native to Minnesota;
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