Hy-Vee store construction beginning this summer

by David Reed

March 13,2008

      Construction of Hy-Vee grocery stores in south and east Columbia will begin this summer after the existing buildings at the two sites are demolished this spring, a company official said this week.
      It usually takes 12 to 18 months to complete construction of the grocery stores, said Marilyn Gahm, the Hy-Vee customer service coordinator.
      The Des Moines-based grocery chain is building its second and third stores in Columbia at the former Wal-Mart site in the Rock Bridge Shopping Center at Providence Road and Nifong Boulevard and at the old MegaMarket site in the Broadway Marketplace near the U.S. 63 intersection with Broadway Street.
      Each of Hy-Vee’s new stores in Columbia will be about 78,000 square feet and cost $5 million to build, according to a building permit application filed with the city by Hy-Vee. Hy-Vee’s store on West Broadway Street is about 70,000 square feet by comparison.

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