Optopolis' Retail News

Firehouse Subs signage as seen from the parking lot of the Pershing MarketPlace - Optopolis Firehouse Subs is set to open its first Cheyenne - and Wyoming - location in the Pershing MarketPlace! Pershing MarketPlace History/Background Pershing MarketPlace is an up-and-coming plaza that had signs up of future development in 2018 and began seeing businesses get built and opened in 2019. It took over the entire block between McCann Ave/North College Dr and E Pershing Blvd/Atkin St, part of which was previously occupied by a long-since-vacated home. Qdoba Mexican Eats opened its second location in 2019, followed by Dog Haus Biergarten opening its first Cheyenne location at the start of 2020. Dog Haus (left) being built in 2019 after Qdoba (right) opened earlier that year - Optopolis Dazbog opened its second Cheyenne location roughly in the center of the plaza in 2020. The same year, North Platte Physical Therapy (previously at the former Hollywood Video now AeroCare) relocated to the build

Barnes & Noble the night before the moving sale began - Optopolis Late in the day on Wednesday, March 30th, Barnes & Noble Cheyenne announced on their social media they were gonna have to relocate. It's now known where they are planning to relocate (temporarily) and roughly when they are set to reopen. Background Cheyenne originally saw B&N open at its current location on Dell Range in 1995. Previously on March 31st, B&N officially began their moving sale with a planned last day of May 15th. In addition to the landlord opting out of renewing B&N's lease, it appears that B&N is closing and moving as a partial result of Natural Grocers Vitamin Cottage wanting a larger, more modern space for their store as both submitted site plans in the Cheyenne City website and an article from Cap City News confirm. Natural Grocer's current location in the Cheyenne MarketPlace -Optopolis The B&N building will not be demolished, but it will receive at least mino

Culver's Lincolnway as seen on April 2nd - Optopolis Culver's; a restaurant that already had one location in Cheyenne, WY; is scheduled to open Monday - not too entirely coincidentally, the same day Pueblo, Colorado's new Culver's is also set to open. History of Culver's as it relates to Cheyenne + the history of its new location Cheyenne's first/original Culver's restaurant was built in 2005, located next to Office Depot on Dell Range Blvd near Powderhouse Rd. That restaurant continues to go strong today. Culver's on Dell Range Blvd - Optopolis In 2021, Culver's officially announced that it would be looking to open a new restaurant on East Lincolnway at what once was Poor Richards, a restaurant that offered many foods including steak and burgers. Poor Richards took over some other restaurant (which was built in 1967) when it opened at this location; PR closed around the start of 2020. The building was demolished in mid-June of 2021 for the soon-to-b

Blockbuster banner hangs on the Converse Ave side of the Blue FCU Branch/retail building - Optopolis Blue Federal Credit Union has announced that a Blockbuster Video is set to open at their headquarters where the Cole Shopping Center (which had a Blockbuster Video) once stood! History of Blockbuster as it relates to Cheyenne This part is serious. Although the exact year of Cheyenne's Blockbuster's opening isn't currently known here at Optopolis, it is known that Blockbuster opened their first Cheyenne store by the turn of the twenty first century, replacing some other small clothing/department store. Blockbuster closed sometime after the main company filed for Bankruptcy in September of 2010. Blockbuster sign hangs inside its abandoned space in the Cole Shopping Center, now demolished - Optopolis About nine years later in 2019, Blue Federal Credit Union had purchased the entire Cole Shopping Center with the intent of replacing the then-dilapidated-and-derelict buildings wit