The Texas-based retailer that caters to sports and outdoors enthusiasts is weeks way from opening in a big box space on Coliseum Boulevard that formerly housed a Kittle's Furniture store.

Academy Sports + Outdoors said in a news release that its 53,325-square-foot store at 614 E. Coliseum Blvd. will open in November, though an exact date is still not available.

The retailer declined today to say how much has been invested to remodel the store for its needs.

In January, the Fort Wayne City Council approved a request for the property to be rezoned to general commercial, which will allow the sale of guns and propane. The land was previously zoned for limited industrial and intensive commercial use.

The Fort Wayne store will be the 10th in Indiana for the retailer, founded as a family busi

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