The forest green roof and pair of bronze stags frozen in combat are impossible to miss as you drive down Interstate 80.
So are the two corporate buildings – 550,000 square feet of nearly empty office space, long offered for a $1 a year lease.
The water tower looms overhead, painted in the same green, heralding what once was: "Cabela's World Headquarters, City of Sidney."
For 54 years, Cabela's made its home here, a juggernaut that kept the town humming. But in 2017, the sporting goods store sold for $5 billion to Bass Pro Shops – a takeover that eventually made 2,000 jobs vanish in a town of r...
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