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Hobby Lobby will do great in this location. It will probably be the end for the Jo Ann in Carson though. And I'm not sure if the Michaels will survive either in their current location. Maybe they could try to relocate. I've never seen a Michaels close after a a Hobby Lobby opens. They are next door...

Trader Joe’s officially announced their new South Reno (Summit) and Sparks (Spanish Springs) locations. South Reno is at the Shayden Summit (former Summit Sierra), in the recently-vacated Orvis location. Spanish Springs is the recently-vacated World Market. As storewanderer and I could both tell you...

And it has been confirmed that Hobby Lobby is indeed taking over the former Burlington location: https://carsonnow.org/story/04/17/2024/hobby-lobby-applies-vacating-burlington-coat-factory-location-carson-city It will be interesting to see how HL does in this location. Shopping center could use some...

The developer is the former Raising Canes franchisee who developed out all of Nevada and Arizona for Raising Canes. These guys are very strong operators and their ability to build those two states out for Raising Canes, become the largest franchisee, then sell the u units all to corporate was quite...

There is construction in Reno on North Virginia between the 7-11 and Raising Canes. There is a coming soon Ruby's sign with the logo of the SoCal chain, and a permit that says this will be "Rubys Shake Shack." This is near a bunch of miserably institutional looking student housing. This s...

It would be interesting to see if this is true, but nothing posted on the ALDI jobs site for NorCal… yet. However, it wouldn’t be shocking to see them coming with a division up here.

In what is probably not a surprise to many of us who follow Cracker Barrel on the West Coast, Cracker Barrel has closed its last remaining Oregon location in Medford: https://kobi5.com/news/medford-cracker-barrel-closes-permanently-225996/ Mom and I were there in October, and the place was dead. It’...

I vaguely remember that whole situation. I think Burlington opened first. I don't expect Burlington to relocate/return to Carson. Really?? They aren't closing the store to relocate. I figured they were probably relocating to the former Bed Bath and Beyond on Topsy because Burlington has been doing ...

I seem to recall the tear down being part of the garden center and the old auto repair area then some way to make the building flow without those? Wasn't Burlington open before that point? Burlington is in a pathetic state. So much sales floor blocked off. Tired looking store there in Carson like t...

There is a weird Ross next to this store. The weird Ross sits in small tenant/strip mall space. It is not in anchor space. It is very small/shallow. Ross moved from a store that was a full size mid 90's Ross one building and to the left of the Carson Target because that center had so little traffic...