Three national retailers opening stores in Florissant
Shannon Howard | May 17, 2010 | Comments 7
The former Value City building on N. Lindbergh will soon have three new tenants – all major national retailers! As announced by the city of Florissant last week, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Best Buy will both be opening new locations there. Petco, which currently has one storefront in Florissant, will also be relocating to the site, which has been vacant since 2008 when Value City went out of business.
At the public hearing for the development on May 11, Rich Obertino of TRI Architects discussed the scope of the project, which calls for dividing the existing 91,000-square foot building into two parcels and erecting a new 12,740 square-foot structure in place of the former Value City garden center. Obertino explained that the front of the Value City building will be removed and replaced with new facades. He also said that landscaping, lighting and signage will be updated.
Assuming that the Florissant City Council approves the developer’s requested zoning amendment, and that all the other details fall into place as expected, the ground-breaking will take place in September 2010. Ultimately, the development will create 200 permanent jobs and 250 temporary construction jobs. Hooray for North County!
(On a side note, a new restaurant is also hoping to open in Florissant soon. Hokkaido steak, sushi & seafood buffet is applying for a special use permit for a storefront in the Florissant Meadows shopping center, near Las Fuentes Mexican restaurant. Yum!)
Filed Under: Real Estate • Revitalization
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looking forward to Dicks Sporting goods. I hate driving to West county giving them my business.
Excellent! It’s happening.
Sushi next to Las Fuentes?! I’m going to be waiting outside in a tent for this place to open!
Instead of worrying about giving West County your sporting goods money why don’t you patronize local stores such as Ficher’s Pro-Line Sports. Price differneces are negligable, the personal service,real knowledge of the merchandise and understanding of patrons’ needs, is tremendous. On top of it, every dollar stays in Florissant not to some corporate headquarters elsewhere.
Does anyone know if Florissant or Hazelwood will ever get a Trader Joe’s? There are a few empty buildings along Lindbergh which would be ideal.
construction jobs these days are on demand because the construction business is booming again;:’
Ficher’s Pro-Line Sports has no fishing stuff or golf stuff