Optopolis' Retail News

Sears store closing sign in the door of Cheyenne's Sears Hometown - Optopolis Cheyenne's new Sears that recently opened in the Cheyenne Plaza off of Lincolnway and College has announced it planning to close! Sears History in Cheyenne Sears originally had a small store in downtown Cheyenne, located where Two Doors Down resides today (you can see that location in in this article from 101.9 KING FM or directly from the LeClercq L Jones Photograph Collection . They moved to the area of the Frontier Mall in 1980 (build date noted in the Laramie County Property Assessor, opening the new location on October 8, 1980 as confirmed by a newspaper published by The Wyoming Eagle. By the end of 2017 (just a few months after the last Cheyenne Kmart closed), that Sears announced it would also close, closing in January 2018. A view of the vacant Sears anchor as seen in 2019 - Optopolis Sears makes comeback through hometown stores. Over the last three years, Sears Hometowns have been opening ac

Burlington "COMING SOON" sign hangs on the soon-to-be Burlington in 2021 at Front Range Village in Fort Collins, CO* - Optopolis Cheyenne is expected to see a new Burlington Coat Factory! Another retail space is likely to become reused, as site plans have been submitted! Where it's going to be located at and some building history... Just earlier this month (May 2022), site plans were submitted for a new Burlington and a to-be-determined retail space in the vacant half of the Dell Range Kmart as part of an "administrative adjustment" according to the Cheyenne Planning/Development website . This is in addition to the new Mattress Firm being built in front of the former Kmart. The vacant half of the former Kmart in March 2020 - Optopolis For those unaware, this building is the site of Cheyenne's third and final Kmart location. The store was built in 1991 according to the property assessor, and it opened on July 29th of the same year according to the Blue Pages

The building where Wyoming Ranch Foods plans to reside - Optopolis Wyoming Ranch Foods, a Torrington-based butcher, is opening a store in Cheyenne! History of Wyoming Ranch Foods and their soon-to-be new shop Wyoming Ranch Foods is a meat processing plant that was established around mid-2020 with the goal of offering higher quality products locally at a lower price. According to their website , they source all their products from ranchers in the state of Wyoming. They already have two store fronts open in Wyoming where you can check out their products - one in Torrington and another in Douglas. Wyoming Ranch Food's Torrington, WY plant location - Google Maps Street View In early April 2022, Wyoming Ranch Foods announced in a Facebook post that they would be expanding to Cheyenne, opening a third store front. More specifically, they chose the building near Warren Avenue at 211 E 19th Street. An alternate perspective of the former Pony X-Press / Minuteman Press building - Optopolis