BY GRETA CUYLERHooksett is watching closely as the first Cabela’s in Maine opened Thursday, May 15, a mirror image of what the same developers hope to build off Exit 11 in Hooksett as early as 2010. A Hooksett Cabela’s is one step closer to reality now that the developer plans to buy the project’s land. Cabela’s had ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCabela’s has announced they will only open two stores in 2008 and two stores in 2009, down from the original seven planned. The Hooksett store’s opening, according to a spokesman for the hunting and fishing superstore corporation, has been put on hold due to plummeting store sales and rising costs, mostly due to the ...

BY JENN McDOWELLCabela’s A sporting goods giant had to wait longer than expected to build in Hooksett, as negotiations continued through 2007 for Cabela’s. Hooksett voters had passed an $18 million general obligation bond to bring Cabela’s, national hunting and sporting chain, into town off Exit 11 in 2006. The bond was for a ...

BY JENN McDOWELLThe Hooksett Town Council is allowing the land planning and engineering firm working on the Cabela’s development to apply for a $3 million grant from the state that would go to major road improvements at the project site. This is the first step of many after a special vote on Tuesday, Oct. 23, when 89 percent of Hooksett ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNThe Hooksett Town Council took two cautious steps forward in its attempts to launch the 150- acre tax increment financing, or TIF, district to be anchored by sports retailer Cabela’s. Councilors unanimously agreed to enter into talks with the state in order to have the Legislature approve the town’s adoption of about ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNForging an ironclad guarantee to fully keep Hooksett’s taxpayers off the hook for repayment of an $18 million bond designed to jump-start the Exit 11 business district may not make the most business sense, a bond expert told the Hooksett Town Council. Marc Hughes, senior vice president of First Albany Capital, a New ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWN A 3,500-foot stretch of Hackett Hill Road could make or break the $18 million development deal that’s been led by retail giant Cabela’s, a company spokesman said. But if all goes well with negotiations between the Nebraskabased outdoor sports outfitter and the town council, Cabela’s could be bringing forth ...

BY NICHOLAS BROWNHOOKSETT – Retail giant Cabela’s is wiring $50,000 for legal fees into the Hooksett town coffers, though some town councilors said they’re uneasy spending the cash without promises from the corporation that Hooksett taxpayers won’t be stuck repaying an $18 million loan. Councilors had different opinions ...