MIDVALE, Utah " Midvale-based national outdoor retailer Sportsman's Warehouse has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company filed for the protections in a Delaware court on Saturday.
Already 23 locations are shutting down, putting 1,700 employees out of work.
The company started construction on a store in Carson City last year.
Sportsman's Warehouse Chairman and CEO Stuart Utgaard said the company hasn't decided what it will do with the Carson City store. That is only one of many issues the company is looking at now, he said.
"That's where we're at," he said.
It was announced in November that Calgary, Canada-based UFA Co-operative Ltd. was seeking to purchase a controlling interest in Sportsman's Warehouse.
But Utgaard told the Associated Press on Sunday that the deal fell through, with UFA choosing to buy 15 stores and not taking a majority position in the privately held company.
Utgaard said that put Sportsman's Warehouse in a precarious financial situation.
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