Sport Chalet Inc

Decades have passed since Sport Chalet Inc. founder Norbert Olberz, 83, began pressing to develop a shopping plaza in the heart of La Cañada Flintridge. Sometimes he wondered if it would ever happen. "I just hope I don't die first," he said eight years ago. He didn't. On Thursday, the tenacious German immigrant will celebrate the opening of a 45,000-square-foot Sport Chalet that is the centerpiece of the La Cañada Flintridge Town Center development.

Sport Chalet Inc. plans to open a new store at the 53-acre Porter Ranch Town Center in the west San Fernando Valley this summer. Sport Chalet sells sporting equipment, apparel and footwear and provides services including equipment rental and repair, divers training and certification, and sports charters.

Capping years of efforts to turn itself around, La Canada-based Sport Chalet Inc. said Tuesday that it logged record profit in its latest fiscal year.

A company that hopes to build a giant indoor snowboarding and wave-pool park beside Anaheim's Edison International Field said Friday it has signed a lease with its first major tenant, Sport Chalet Inc.

Sport Chalet Inc., Los Angeles, has opened a 43,000-square-foot specialty sporting goods store in Porter Ranch. The Porter Ranch location will be the second for Sport Chalet in the San Fernando Valley area.

Capping years of efforts to turn itself around, La Canada-based Sport Chalet Inc. said Tuesday that it logged record profit in its latest fiscal year.