New Rival Coming to Town

From Phillies to Flyers and everything in between, sports fans will have another option to buy jerseys, T-shirts and other sports-related goods with the opening of Rally House.

The 9,050-square-foot store, which is still very much under construction, will be located not only in the same shopping plaza as Dick's Sporting Goods, but right beside it.

Rally House, a chain sports store which began in 1989 in Kansas, according to its Web site, will open on Aug. 15 in The Plaza at Willow Grove Park on Moreland Road in Abington Township, according to Michael Gorman, a leasing agent with Metro Commercial Real Estate, Inc. 

Gorman said the Abington store, which is adjacent to the Willow Grove Park Mall, would employ 15 to 20 people. So far, a store manager has been hired and interviews are ongoing for the rest of the positions, he said.  

Rally House currently operates 25 stores throughout Kansas, Missouri and Texas, according to its Web site. Besides the Willow Grove store, the company plans on opening three other stores throughout the Philadelphia region this summer, including locations in Exton, Collegeville and Moorestown, N.J., according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.