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Sports Basement: The biggest, best basement ever
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Sports Basement: The biggest, best basement ever
What’s a large retail store doing in a national park? What Sports Basement does at its 80,000-square-foot store in San Francisco’s Presidio National Park is cater to every need of the outdoors-minded folks who use the park. Just outside its doors, walkers, runners and cyclists stream past on the paths alongside the bay to the Golden Gate Bridge. Quite a few of them stop: for an energy bar, a bike tube or a sporty windbreaker.
Before the U.S. Army handed over the Presidio to the National Park Service, this building was the base commissary—still evident in the words painted on the walls: “Produce,” “Fish,” Meat.” They compete with other signs: “Bike,” “Run,” “Swim.” How big is the store? Big enough that the bike area alone, which includes rentals and repairs, is much larger than most bike shops—yet without the narrow aisles you’d find
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Published: Mar 9, 2010
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