Publix spending millions of dollars renovating first three Martin's grocery stores in Henrico
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 6:45 pm
Florida-based Publix Super Markets Inc. has received building permits from Henrico County for renovations of the first three of 10 area Martin’s Food Markets grocery stores it will convert to Publix supermarkets.
Building permits have been approved for stores at 10250 Staples Mill Road in the Shoppes at CrossRidge, at 2250 John Rolfe Parkway in John Rolfe Commons and at 4591 S. Laburnum Ave. in White Oak Village.
Renovations at the 60,783-square-foot Staples Mill Road store will cost an estimated $3.24 million, the permit shows. That store opened as a Ukrop’s Super Markets store in late 2003 and became a Martin’s location in 2010.
The 67,828-square-foot John Rolfe Parkway store is estimated to cost $3.45 million. That store also opened in late 2003.
The cost for work on the 67,139-square-foot Laburnum Avenue store, which opened in 2008, is estimated at $3.44 million.
The permits list the estimated costs for building renovations, including work on electrical, plumbing, and heating and air-conditioning systems.
McIntyre Elwell & Strammer General Contractors Inc. of Sarasota, Fla., is listed as the contractor on the projects. The architectural firm for the renovations is Little Diversified Architectural Consulting of Charlotte, N.C. And Bowen Engineering Inc. of Orlando, Fla., is listed as the structural engineer.
The building permit fees were waived for the South Laburnum Avenue renovations because that project is in a Henrico enterprise zone. The permit fees are about $16,000 for the store on Staples Mill Road and $17,000 for the store on John Rolfe Parkway.
An official at Publix was not able to provide additional details Tuesday.
Martin’s plans to close the three stores as early as Nov. 28. A total of 438 employees are losing their jobs as a result of the closures.
Publix plans to renovate or rebuild the 10 stores it is buying from Martin’s on a rolling basis.
Publix has not said how long the stores will be closed for renovations, but have said the locations will undergo extensive remodeling.
When Martin’s took over 25 former Ukrop’s Super Markets locations in 2010, the retailer closed the stores in batches of four or five for weeklong, multimillion-dollar renovations.
That entire process took six weeks.
Separate from that deal, Publix announced plans this year to build a store off Nuckols Road in western Henrico.
The Martin’s stores are being sold as a condition of the merger of the parent companies of Martin’s and Food Lion grocery stores to satisfy antitrust regulators.
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