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Scheels company officials marked the completion Wednesday of the steel framework for a 220,000-square-foot sporting goods and apparel store in Sandy.

Scheduled to open in October 2012, the store will feature an interior 65-foot-tall Ferris wheel and a 16,000-gallon saltwater aquarium, in addition to nearly 1 million products, including footwear, firearms, fishing rigs, team-sports equipment and winter-sports gear. It will have several "sports simulators" where shoppers can test a hockey stick or hit golf balls into a video screen.

The store is expected to provide 400 jobs. It is in a new real estate development to be called One Fourteen at 11400 South between Interstate 15 and State Street. Sandy competed with Boise to land the Fargo, N.D.-based company, which has 23 stores in eight states.