Hibbett Sporting Goods continues to make a bigger play for the Chattanooga market as it plans to open a new store this weekend in Brainerd and another on Signal Mountain Road within the next couple of months.
The Birmingham-based retailer is slated to unveil its latest store off Brainerd Road across from the new Chick-fil-A and Brainerd Village on Saturday.
In June, Hibbett’s future store, its third in Chattanooga, will go into the Wal-Mart shopping center on Signal Mountain Road in a former Shoe Dept. location.
Company spokeswoman Jessica Casto said that store will go in 5,200 square feet of space. Typically, Hibbert stores hire between eight to 10 part-time people, she said.
Jeff Gray, the company’s vice president of real estate, said Hibbett likes the Chattanooga market.