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PEARL -- By any measure, the new Bass Pro Shop Outdoor World store is going to be big. The more than $30-million facility, located at the interchange of Interstate 20, Interstate 55 and U.S. 49, is set for opening November 8, 2005, and will feature more than 100,000 square feet of retail space, a lake for fishing demonstrations, an aquarium and other amenities that are expected to attract two million or more visitors per year, and will employ 300 workers.
Since the project's announcement in 2003, anticipation of the store's opening has been keen--except maybe among metro Jackson-area outfitters. A multi-million-dollar incentive package from the state and city to Bass Pro Shops is their main beef.
Outfitters vow to compete
"If they had purchased the land themselves, if they had built...
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