Sports retailer with a Midwest origin to open its first New York store at Destiny USA

Rally House, a sports-merchandise retailer with current locations in 13 states, plans to open its first New York state location at Destiny USA in Syracuse this spring. The company started in Kansas in the late 1980s. (Photo credit: Rally House website)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Rally House, a sports and merchandise retailer, plans to open its first store in New York at Destiny USA this spring. The retailer will offer sports fans officially licensed team apparel and localized merchandise in a 5,700-square-foot store on level 2 next to Five Below, Destiny USA said in a release. Rally […]

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Rally House, a sports and merchandise retailer, plans to open its first store in New York at Destiny USA this spring.

The retailer will offer sports fans officially licensed team apparel and localized merchandise in a 5,700-square-foot store on level 2 next to Five Below, Destiny USA said in a release.

Rally House carries authentic pro and college team gear and apparel from top brand names such as Nike, ‘47, Mitchell and Ness, Adidas, and New Era. The store at Destiny USA will also provide customers with an assortment of team gear, collectibles, and gifts.

Rally House hopes to hire various full and part-time positions including a store manager; assistant store manager; assistant manager in training; senior team sales lead;team sales; lead, receiving and inventory specialist; sales associates; and seasonal sales associates.

Those interested can review open positions at Rally House Destiny USA and apply online at www.rallyhouse.com/careers.

Company history

As described on its website, the company’s origin dates back to 1989 when Tim and Mabel “Peg” Liebert “established their vision,” and “many considered Peg’s concept to be nothing more than wishful thinking on behalf of an ambitious woman seeking to compete with major stores in the local area.”

It started as “Mabel’s Kitchen,” catalogue with apparel, gifts, and other merchandise related to all-things Kansas. It was called Kansas Sampler. The catalogue eventually became five stores selling Kansas Jayhawks, Kansas State Wildcats, Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals gear. In the late 2000s, the Lieberts appointed their son, Aaron, as company CEO. After the “highs and lows” that Kansas Sampler endured in 2008, the Lieberts decided to expand outside Kansas and the firm evolved into Rally House.

With the Destiny USA store still to come, Rally House is currently operating in 13 states, per its website. They include Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, Iowa, Indiana and Oklahoma, per the website.

Eric Reinhardt