By Craig Young, Reporter-Herald
JOHNSTOWN — Retailers and restaurateurs are signing up for a ride on the coattails of the mammoth Scheels sporting goods store that will open in Johnstown in September.
The 250,000-square-foot store in Johnstown’s 2534 development, across the highway from Loveland, will be the largest single piece of an 80-acre development that’s filling in with smaller tenants.
Allen Schlup, a partner with Carson Development of Overland Park, Kan., said his company’s Johnstown Plaza project is ahead of schedule.
Schlup said the restaurants and retailers that have signed leases for space around Scheels all want to open about the same time in late September..
Two buildings northwest of Scheels are nearing completion, he said, and construction is starting on a 50,000-square-foot building to the west.
So far, Carson Development has executed leases for:
- Parry’s Pizzeria & Bar, a Colorado-based chain with six other locations in the state. The closest Parry’s is in Longmont.
- Bad Daddy’s Burger Bar, a North Carolina-based burger joint with 10 restaurants in Colorado
- Lux Nailbar beauty salon
- Sprint cellphone store
- Anytime Fitness health club
- Tuesday Morning closeout retailer
- Burlington, formerly known as Burlington Coat Factory, an off-price clothing and home-product retailer with 567 stores nationwide
- Ulta Beauty, selling cosmetics, fragrances and skin- and hair-care products
Schlup said more deals are “in the pipeline,” although a grocery store isn’t one of them yet.
“We would love to put a grocery store in,” the developer said. “That is something that we feel is a priority for this area, and there is a hole in the market for an additional grocer to be here. But a deal hasn’t come together yet.”
The first phase of the development, of which Scheels and the other signed tenants are a part, will consist of 500,000 square feet of shopping and dining.
