After 70 years in business, Jax Outdoor Gear in Ames is closing The popular sporting goods announced the “end of an era” in a May 13 Facebook post, revealing the store will close by the end of August.
Three Ames nonprofits — Friendship Ark, The Arc of Story County and Overflow Thrift Store — are partnering to purchase and renovate the JAX Outdoor Gear buildings on Lincoln Way after the store closes ...
AUBURN - Ames is no more. Two months after declaring bankruptcy, and nearly 20 years after it took over from Barkers at Auburn Plaza, Ames Department Store sold the last of its merchandise Saturday.