Arizona
Massive Scheels sports retailer preparing for Arizona debut in Chandler
PHOENIX — Arizona’s first Scheels sporting items retailer is getting ready for its fall debut, which can convey quite a lot of gear and family-friendly sights to the East Valley.
The grandiose 250,000-square-foot retail area, which has been beneath growth at Chandler Vogue Heart since Might 2021, is ready to open Sept. 30.
In its first Arizona retailer, Scheels will pull out all of the stops with an indoor Ferris wheel, a 16,000-gallon saltwater aquarium with over 600 fish, mini bowling, arcade video games, interactive card video games and a café that serves gourmand sandwiches and soups.
The sports activities retailer will promote quite a lot of objects from greater than 75 specialty retailers, together with clothes, looking and fishing gear.
The Chandler retailer is seeking to rent greater than 400 associates, in accordance with a press launch.
Full-time positions now out there embrace social media specialists, human assets assistants and freight assist. Half-time positions shall be posted within the coming months.
To facilitate the hiring, Scheels opened a profession heart at 1320 S. Spectrum Blvd., southeast of the Loop 101 Value Freeway/Loop 202 Santan Freeway interchange.
“At Scheels, our clients, our neighborhood companions and our group of empowered associates are what’s most essential,” Louie Sikich, Chandler retailer chief, stated within the launch.
“Whereas we now have a small Scheels group right here already making our new house in Chandler, the vast majority of our associates shall be employed domestically. We will’t wait to broaden our group and we sit up for welcoming many neighborhood members to our Scheels household.”
The corporate, which relies in North Dakota, has greater than 30 shops nationwide.