This article provides a good accounting of 15 companies opening new stores.
While many retailers are closing stores, some are rapidly building new locations, with at least one — Dollar General — adding as many as 900 stores this year.
A large majority of the retailers that are opening new stores this year are discounters, including Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Aldi, Lidl, Five Below, and Hobby Lobby.
Those retailers and others will collectively open more than 2,100 stores this year, according to a Business Insider analysis based on company data.