Party America has moved. It's not closed!

Party America sign as seen on the facade of the previous Cheyenne Plaza location - Optopolis

After many years at the old location, Cheyenne's Party America store has moved to a new location! It is still in the same vicinity, but in a new space.

A glance at the history

According to the property assessor, the building which housed the previous location of Party America (not to be confused with an unaffiliated brand known as Party City) was built in 1983.

Party America's previous location as seen in 2020 - Optopolis

Permits available in the Cheyenne City Planning website indicate that Party America had presence at the location since at least 2010 (signage permits were submitted early that year), and their Facebook page has also been active since 2010. At this time, it's not entirely clear here at Optopolis what (if anything) was in the space before Party America. One can find a reasonable amount of photos of this space on their Facebook page, such as this photo.

They announced relocation... and an emergency.

After being present at the old location for over a decade, Party America moved to what was previously Cheyenne's Sears Hometown. Sears Hometown was quite short lived; that store opened around the start of 2022 in the space next to Absolute Flooring only to announce in May 2022 that it was set to close (as reported here at Optopolis).

Many years before Sears Hometown--back when Cheyenne's second Walmart location was being built--the space was used for a Walmart Recruitment Center.

Sears Hometown's store front when it was closing - Optopolis

Returning to recent times, the new Party America location had opened by January 2023. Unfortunately, they had a family emergency where two relatives had passed away which resulted in temporary closure around late January (Optopolis gives his condolences). This was confirmed by signage still seen on January 22nd at the new store front.

Party America's temporary closed sign as seen in late January 2023 - Optopolis

After once again reopening, they had posted new info to their Facebook Page (as pictured below), further confirming that they indeed had relocated to a new space.

Post containing relocation info from Party America. - Party America Cheyenne on Facebook

Since the time of the above Facebook post and based on the information in the Cheyenne City Planning website, the permits for moving the signage have already been approved, and sometime over the last two weeks, the front side's signage had been relocated. A new tenant is already working towards occupying the old space (more info coming in a future article).

Party' America's signage as seen on the new store front - Optopolis

Have you visited the new store? And if so, what do you think of the new location? Let us know in the comments!

P.S. The comments section should now be fixed; you should now be able to comment on any article that has comments enabled (which is 99.99% of all the pages on the Optopolis BlogSpot). Sorry to anyone who wanted to comment before and couldn't. Somehow, a setting on the back end had gotten changed, but it's now changed back to the correct setting. You should now be able comment through your Google Account or anonymously.
Location: Cheyenne, WY, USA

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