{"id":23669,"date":"2016-03-04T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kents-sports-authority-store-to-remain-open\/"},"modified":"2016-03-04T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T21:23:50","slug":"kents-sports-authority-store-to-remain-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kents-sports-authority-store-to-remain-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent\u2019s Sports Authority store to remain open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Sports Authority doesn\u2019t plan to close a Kent store or any of its other 18 locations in Washington as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing that includes the closure or sale of 140 stores across the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sports Authority opened its Kent store last March at 13026 S.E. Kent Kangley Road, in the same shopping complex as Trader Joe&#8217;s. The company also has stores in Auburn and Tukwila.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Colorado-based company has 463 stores in 41 states and Puerto Rico. Company officials said this week Sports Authority has $1.1 billion in debt as sales continue to slump for the sporting goods retailer.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The company started liquidation sales on Friday for a lengthy list of store closures, including 25 in Texas, 19 in California and four in Oregon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Here is the list of stores closing, according to <a title=\"list\" href=\"https:\/\/consumerist.com\/2016\/03\/03\/heres-the-list-of-sports-authority-stores-that-are-closing\/\" target=\"_self\">consumerist.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Authority doesn\u2019t plan to close a Kent store or any of its other 18 locations in Washington as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing that includes the closure or sale of 140 stores across the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":23670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23669"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}