Ankeny loses Dick's Sporting Goods project
A St. Louis developer has scrapped its plan to build a Dick's Sporting Goods and Gordman's in Ankeny.
The Staenberg Group had proposed a 300,000-square-foot retail center called Delaware Commons along Ankeny's booming Southeast Delaware Avenue.
But earlier this month the company reached the end of a due diligence period in its contract to buy the property and decided not to pursue the project, said Chris Murray, CEO of the Denny Elwell Company, which owns the land.
Officials with the Staenberg Group could not be reached for comment.
Murray said he did not know why the developers pulled out.
The retail center would have been located on the east side of Delaware Avenue at Southeast 54th Street, just south of a new Sam's Club, the latest big box retailer being built along the corridor.
Murray said the Ankeny-based Denny Elwell Company will spend the winter considering whether it will develop the land itself or market it to other retail developers.