Tom Brady's rapidly growing sports card chain is setting up shop in Los Angeles. CardVault by Tom Brady will open its 18th retail location at Westfield Century City on September 16, marking a new market for the company and its third store in California.
The new location, at 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Level 2, Space 2455, sits adjacent to Din Tai Fung inside the mall, according to Morningstar. Co-founder Chris Costa said Los Angeles is an exciting and strategic market for the brand, per the same announcement. The store will carry single cards, sealed boxes, packs, and collectibles from Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, Pokémon, and Fanatics Authentic, and it will showcase autographed and authenticated memorabilia through the company's Signature Vault, which includes items like helmets, jerseys, bats, and balls.
Shoppers will also be able to buy, sell, trade, and grade collectibles on-site, since CardVault is an authorized dealer for PSA, Beckett, and SGC and offers grading submission services in-house. The report notes the store will host live events, exclusive product releases, trade nights, and interactive experiences going forward, and CardVault also runs CardVault Breaks, a live-streaming business built around real-time card openings and community collecting.
Grand Opening Perks and Store Hours
The grand opening celebration kicks off at 10 a.m. on September 16, with the first 25 customers in line receiving a limited-edition Los Angeles-themed CardVault by Tom Brady hat. Guests at the opening can also enter to win a Shohei Ohtani geometric refractor PSA 10 card or a Justin Herbert signed mini helmet, according to the announcement carried by Morningstar.
Once open, the Century City store will run Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. The location sits inside Westfield Century City, an outdoor shopping center that property owner Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield refinanced for $925 million in July 2025, when the 1.4-million-square-foot property was appraised at over $2 billion with a 95.6 percent occupancy rate, according to Commercial Observer.
From Nantucket Beach Chat to National Chain
CardVault's roots trace back to when sports card breaker Chris Costa and Big Night Entertainment Group co-founder Randy Greenstein met by chance on a Nantucket beach, according to Sports Illustrated. Big Night, a hospitality group, pivoted from venue operations into digital card breaks and retail during pandemic shutdowns before opening its first physical store at Patriot Place in Foxborough, Massachusetts. That flagship store was later named America's Best Card Shop at the 42nd National Sports Collectors Convention in August 2022, selected from over 1,400 nominations, per PR Newswire.
Tom Brady acquired a 50 percent ownership stake in CardVault in February 2025, Front Office Sports reports. That deal accelerated the company's growth from three brick-and-mortar stores to 18 locations in roughly 19 months. The company is co-owned by Brady, Ed Kane, Randy Greenstein, Chris Costa, Tim Bonito, and Scott Heigelmann, and CardVault has also been named one of Inc. magazine's America's Fastest Growing Private Companies.
Star-Studded Investors Fuel National Push
In August 2026, CardVault announced a strategic investor group that includes Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge, UFC President Dana White, Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid, Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck, and Fenway Sports Group principal owner John Henry, according to Sports Illustrated. The investors joined the founders to fund the brand's retail expansion and automated distribution channels. Company leadership is now pursuing a long-term strategy to grow past 100 U.S. retail locations, with sights set on premier sports and entertainment destinations, per PR Newswire.
Century City marks CardVault's third California store, following its debut West Coast location at Sacramento's DOCO plaza in January 2026 and a second store at Town & Country Village in Palo Alto that opened in August, per Sports Collectors Daily. That Palo Alto store made headlines for a different reason just a week after its opening, when suspects smashed windows and display cases and made off with 60 graded trading cards valued at over $12,000, according to ABC7 News. Hoodline previously reported on a related spike in armed thefts of trading cards nationwide, a trend that cited the Palo Alto burglary as part of a broader pattern of targeted retail crime tied to rising card valuations.
The company's national footprint has grown fast in recent weeks, with CardVault signing a 10-year lease for an 18th-location-adjacent store in downtown Indianapolis, a deal Hoodline detailed in its report on the brand's downtown Indy corner. Other recent openings include a Ballpark Village location near Busch Stadium in St. Louis and a planned San Francisco store near Oracle Park.
A Market Riding a Collectibles Boom
CardVault's expansion is unfolding against a broader surge in the trading card market. Mass-market retailers are also participating in the collectibles market.
For Los Angeles collectors, the Westfield Century City opening puts CardVault at the center of the city's sports and collector energy, according to the announcement. Doors open to the public Wednesday morning, with the grand opening festivities and prize drawings kicking off at 10 a.m.
