Problem here is that Sports Authority put all the other sporting goods stores out of business. If they go, there will be no sporting goods stores in our entire city.
Well if you’re really lucky, losing this box store will pave the way for one or more locally-owned stores to pop up and serve your local market. Books have been written on the subject but communities are vastly better served by smaller locally owned stores - see https://ilsr.org/
I won’t paste it in because it’s huge but take a look at the infographic here:
https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Amazon_Infographic_1200px.png
