Cabelas to open

[Rizzo]

Hammond, Indiana - People in West Michigan won't have to drive across the state to shop Cabela's -- a new store is coming to Northwest Indiana. Today Cabela's announced it is building a new store in Hammond, about 150 miles southwest of Grand Rapids.

http://wzzm.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=54750

[grrwymg]

Booo!

Enough said.

If I were someone who would visit Cabella's, I'd still goto the one in Dundee.

[Veloise]

http://wzzm.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=54750

Hammond? Near Gary? And the outlet mall?

Yep, real convenient for hunting season and those last-minute purchases in November.

[i hate the fact that I know too much about hunting.]

[AlexPKeaton]

WZZM 13 News contacted Cabela's and a spokesman said the new store in Indiana does not have any impact on the prospects of building a store here, but they won't confirm they are even considering the idea.

Yeah, right. With a store that big there's no way they will build another one this close. I'm sure they expect a lot of their business to come from people traveling north during hunting season, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to put two stores on the same route.

-nb

[localtalent]

Yeah, right. With a store that big there's no way they will build another one this close.

No way, no how?

Hmmm......

[GRDadof3]

Yeah, right. With a store that big there's no way they will build another one this close. I'm sure they expect a lot of their business to come from people traveling north during hunting season, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to put two stores on the same route.

-nb

Hammond is almost 2 1/2 hours away. Dundee is maybe the same. Not that close.

[ScheuerJD]

There's been a lot of talk of rumors that Cabelas has been looking into large land purchases in the Big Rapids/Reed City area near US-131. Makes sense since you would be able to get a lot of people on the west side of the state who go north on 131.

[tony speller]

A project developer named Bob Foust attends my parents' church, and i guess he has a huge plot of land out in Walker that he is intrested in turning into a Cabela's. Who knows if that is still in the works though. If they build that one in Big Rapids I guess it wouldn't make sense to have one in GR.