4 Richmond-area Martin's stores closing in two weeks to begin another round of Publix renovations
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:45 pm
More Martin’s Food Markets grocery stores are in the pipeline to be converted to Publix Super Markets Inc. locations, according to building permits issued in Colonial Heights and Henrico and Chesterfield counties.
Publix is buying and converting 10 area Martin’s stores to Publix stores.
Permits were filed recently for four more Martin’s-to-Publix store renovations.
The stores are at 10150 Brook Road in Virginia Center Marketplace center in northern Henrico County; at 3460 Pump Road in the Short Pump Crossing shopping center in western Henrico; at 13700 Hull Street Road in Harbour Pointe Village center in Chesterfield County; and at 3107 Boulevard in the Colonial Square center in Colonial Heights.
The four stores are expected to close to shoppers on Feb. 6 or later so the renovation work can begin.
Publix is planning to do millions of dollars of renovation work — at least $15.8 million in this latest round — to convert the next group of four stores to its look and brand.
The cost of renovations at the Pump Road and Brook Road stores each will run about $5 million — consisting of $3.4 million for the building and the remainder for related trades work such as electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, elevator and fire protection work, according to the building permits. Both stores are about 67,000 square feet.
The permit issued for the renovation work at the Hull Street Road store in Chesterfield calls for $3.4 million in renovations and specifies a tenant buildout of 63,575 square feet out of 66,148 square feet total floor area. The dollar figure does not include work for mechanical, fire protection, elevator and other work that require separate permits.
Cost of the construction work on the 55,000-square-foot Colonial Heights store is listed as $2.4 million, which does not include electrical, HVAC and other trades work that is permitted separately.
Permits were issued last fall for renovations at three former Martin’s store — 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, all in Henrico.
Publix plans to spend $10.13 million to renovate those three stores, according to the permits.
Work on those renovations is underway now. The company has not released any opening dates.
“At this time we do not have any confirmed opening dates,” Publix spokeswoman Kim Reynolds said in an email.
“It’s still a bit early to say. There was extensive work required at the stores. We are conducting total renovations, which does take some time; yet the end result will be like brand new Publix stores,” Reynolds said.
Publix, based in Lakeland, Fla., is acquiring 10 of 19 area Martin’s stores as fallout from the merger between the parent companies of Martin’s and Food Lion grocery chains. Some stores had to be sold to satisfy antitrust regulators.
Martin’s grocery stores opened in the Richmond area in 2010 when its parent company bought Ukrop’s Super Markets Inc.’s 24 stores in the Richmond-area stores and one in Williamsburg for $140 million. Stores were transitioned to the Martin’s brand over a six-week period, with four to five stores closing for a week at a time for renovations. Martin’s later closed six stores and built a new store.
The three other stores that are part of the 10-store Publix purchase package and in line for renovation or rebuilds are the Martin’s stores at 3522 W. Cary St. in Carytown; at 7035 Three Chopt Road in the Village Shopping Center; and at 9645 W. Broad St. in the Westpark Shopping Center.
Separate from that deal, Publix, the nation’s largest employee-owned grocery chain, announced plans in 2016 to build a 49,000-square-foot store off Nuckols Road in western Henrico.
The fate of the other nine area Martin’s stores that Publix did not buy has not been disclosed. One of those stores opened in 2014 at Midlothian Turnpike at Charter Colony Parkway.
Officials at Martin’s did not respond to questions about the stores. The company last July said it planned to keep the stores open for six to 12 months while a buyer or buyers are found. Martin’s also is trying to sell its store in Williamsburg.
Hundreds of Martin’s employees are losing their jobs when the stores close. In the first round of closings in November, 438 employees were laid off, according to a state website that lists mass layoffs. In the stores closing next month, 672 employees are being laid off, the website shows.
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