{"id":12219,"date":"2016-11-16T23:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T04:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12219"},"modified":"2017-09-13T00:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T04:32:01","slug":"golfsmith-252-harbison-boulevard-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12219","title":{"rendered":"Golfsmith, 252 Harbison Boulevard: November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/11\/p1370004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/11\/p1370004_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1370004_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1370004_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/11\/p1370005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/11\/p1370005_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1370005_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1370005_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Golfsmith<\/i> was the follow-on operation in this storefront to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6027\">OfficeMax\/Office Depot<\/a>, moving in sometime in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/what-golfsmiths-chapter-11-filing-really-meansand-which-stores-are-closing\">this article<\/a> explains, the firm filed for Chapter 11 in mid September.  What went wrong, well, from the same source<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut really what went wrong, and what happens next?<\/p>\n<p>To the first point, it\u2019s clear from a read of the Golfsmith bankruptcy filing and those familiar with the company both internally and externally that Golfsmith expanded to its current 109 stores in the U.S. too aggressively, in the wrong way (as far as store formats go) and most likely without proper capital to support such expansion.<\/p>\n<p>....<br \/>\n....<\/p>\n<p>All of which was exacerbated by the fact that--as part of the Chapter 11 filing reads--\u201cthe enthusiasm underpinning the \u2018Tiger Woods Phenomenon\u2019 significantly waned.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently <i>Dick's Sporting Goods<\/i> has acquired at least some of the <i>Golfsmith<\/i> assets, but I'm not clear from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2016\/11\/15\/dicks-buys-golfsmith-assets-for-43m.html\">this story<\/a> whether that is nationally or just in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Andrew)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 13 September 2017<\/b> -- Now a popup Halloween store, <i>Spirit Halloween<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450773.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450773_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450773_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450773_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450774.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450774_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450774_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450774_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450775.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450775_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450775_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450775_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450776.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450776_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450776_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450776_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450777.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450777_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450777_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450777_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450778.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450778_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450778_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450778_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450779.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/09\/p1450779_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1450779_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1450779_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golfsmith was the follow-on operation in this storefront to OfficeMax\/Office Depot, moving in sometime in 2013. As this article explains, the firm filed for Chapter 11 in mid September. What went wrong, well, from the same source But really what went wrong, and what happens next? To the first point, it\u2019s clear from a read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2119,100,188,182,1680,4],"class_list":["post-12219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-252-harbison-boulevard","tag-golf","tag-harbison","tag-harbison-boulevard","tag-harbison-court","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}