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Academy Sports + Outdoors Opens Cartersville Store

Academy Sports + Outdoors also hosted a shopping spree for 30 children with the Boys & Girls Club of Bartow County.

Academy Sports + Outdoors last week officially opened its new location in Cartersville. 

The Cartersville store, located at 453 East Main Street, is the company's seventh store in the Atlanta area and 13th in the state.

On Thursday, April 10, the store donated $100 Academy gift cards to 30 children from Boys & Girls Club of Bartow County and these children were able to shop for anything they desired.

“We’re very excited to provide residents in northwest Atlanta a convenient location to shop for all of their outdoor family fun,” said Gabe Thornton, Academy Sports + Outdoors’ senior vice president of store services. “We’re grateful for the warm welcome to the area and look forward to being an active member of the community for years to come.” 

The doors opened to the public at large on April 11, and the first 100 customers who showed they followed one of the store's social media accounts received a mystery gift card valued between $20 and $500.

The Cartersville store occupies more than 71,000 square feet of space and brings roughly 150 new jobs to the area. It features the company's newest golf simulator, archery lane, and the broad assortment of products customers find at the other six stores in the Atlanta-area. 

Academy will open its next store in the area in Douglasville on May 2. 


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