Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Another Opry Mills store goes into exile

Nike will this week open a temporary location for its factory store, formerly at Opry Mills, in Cool Springs.

Nike emphasizes the move to the Cool Springs Pointe development north of Moores Lane is only for the time being and that it plans to return to the flooded mega-mall once renovations and repairs are complete.

The iconic shoe giant is the latest retailer forced to find space after the May floods. A number of tenants have relocated to Lebanon's Premium Outlets – which changed its name from Prime Outlets after being acquired by Opry Mills parent Simon Property Group last week.

Some tenants appear ready to weather the closure – Bass Pro Shops has committed to hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs since the flood, for example – but Simon has repeatedly declined to name any retailers who are looking to relocate, although certainly such a move is easier after last week's Lebanon acquisition. 

SOURCE: Nashville Post by J.R. Lind

1 comment:

  1. Bass Pro is tanking at the empty Opry Mills death zone. Move move fast and move soon. Everyone else has. You should be by a lake anyway, nobody fishes in that contamidated river.

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