{"id":9257,"date":"2016-05-23T17:25:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/sports-authority-to-close-all-stores-including-kent-site\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T08:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:55:35","slug":"sports-authority-to-close-all-stores-including-kent-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/sports-authority-to-close-all-stores-including-kent-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Authority to close all stores, including Kent site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Sports Authority plans to close all 463 of its stores, including a Kent location, because of declining sales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The sporting goods retailer plans to launch a going-out-of business sale later this week at its stores, according to several media sources on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In March, Sports Authority said it didn\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. But the financial losses and competition from online sales became too much for the company.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Sports Authority opened its Kent store in March 2015 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 earlier this year that Sports Authority has $1.1 billion in debt as sales continue to slump.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Authority plans to close all 463 of its stores, including a Kent location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":9258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-9257","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\/9257"}],"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=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}