When in March, company executives believed they could still possibly right the ship.
They’d have to — including the — Ի cut deals with creditors, but they’d emerge leanerԻ better able to .
“I know there is a great company here,” CEO Michael Foss said at the time in .
By the end of the year, Sports Authority was gone.
Thousands of Coloradans lost their jobs — at and at its 31 retail outposts throughout the state.
Today, the only remnants of the retailer that could trace its roots in Colorado back to Gart Bros. Sporting Goods are and the still emblazoned across the Denver Broncos’ stadium.
Neither of those are long for this world. Other retailers, including Ի , have begun snapping up the best real estate and more announcements are sure to come in 2017.
The Broncos haven’t set a , but you better believe the reigning Super Bowl champs don’t want to play a second straight season in a stadium bearing the name of a company that no longer exists.
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