Sporting goods retailer revs up expansion

Modell’s Sporting Goods is opening a flagship on the site of a former rival.



Modell’s will open a two-level, 20,000-sq.-ft. store on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a site formerly occupied by Sports Authority. The opening is slated for mid-November.



The store will become Modell’s flagship store in Manhattan, said William Rudin, CEO of property manager Rudin Management Company, in a release.



New York-based Modell's is in an expansion mode. In addition to the flagship, it’s scheduled to open a store in Brooklyn, New York and two in New Jersey next month, giving it a total of 159 locations.