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JAX Outdoor Gear / JAX Mercantile (former Sears) in Cheyenne Wy

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JAX Outdoor Gear renovating Sears Cheyenne JAX Mercantile Co. is currently setting up to open it's store in Cheyenne Wyoming at the Frontier Mall. This is the first of it's stores in Wyoming, and this is in addition to six Colorado locations and one in Iowa, making Cheyenne's store the eighth location to open. A little bit of history on this location; Sears opened in this location on October 8, 1980, the year prior to the Frontier Mall opening. Roughly thirty eight years later in January of 2018, Sears closed permanently. In Halloween of the same year, Spirit Halloween opened in the Sears, which would end up being the first video I ever filmed for YouTube, and you can check it out above. If you haven't seen a JAX store before that's taken over another store, they seem to have a habit of using what is there, but then adding their own touch, which means you still can often tell what was there before looking at the facade. For example, the JAX in Loveland, CO was