More than a dozen years after an aborted attempt to add Dick’s Sporting Goods to The Gardens Mall , the mall’s owners have proposed bringing an even larger version of the national sports chain to the two-level space formerly occupied by Sears.

Dick’s House of Sport would replace the now-vacant Sears store as the mall’s fifth anchor in a proposal that also would bring Dick’s latest attraction, an 18,000-square-foot outdoor playing field, to the mall, a June 27 development application submitted to Palm Beach Gardens shows.

The proposal from a subsidiary of The Forbes Co ., the Michigan-based owner of the mall, also would provide an extra 47,000 square feet in the mall for more stores, with specialty furniture seller Arhaus moving from its spot near Bloomingdale’s.

In all, th

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