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Workers are prepping 15 acres at 500 N. Eastgate Ave. to make way for a Menards store.
SBJ photo by Geoff Pickle
Workers are prepping 15 acres at 500 N. Eastgate Ave. to make way for a Menards store.

Work underway on east-side Menards

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Site work is underway for a Menards store at the former Hickory Hills Elementary property at the corner of U.S. Highway 65 and Chestnut Expressway that’s long sat vacant.

Green Bay, Wisconsin-based Immel Construction broke ground Oct. 25 at the 15-acre site, 500 N. Eastgate Ave., said project manager Rich Schneider. The project’s estimated cost is $6.7 million, according to a city building permit.

“You’ll start seeing it go up real fast,” he said, noting steel likely would become visible in a couple weeks. “We pound these things out.”

Immel Construction is targeting a late April completion date for the 200,000-square-foot store and a 48,000-square-foot detached warehouse. Schneider estimated Menards would open the store in June or July. Menards spokesman Jeff Abbott was unable to provide construction details this morning.

Schneider said Emery Sapp & Sons Inc. is tasked with developing the store’s parking lot and performing site work. Menards is serving as its own architect for the store with civil engineering work by Anderson Engineering Inc., he said.

Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based home improvement retailer Menard Inc. bought the property from Springfield Public Schools for roughly $4 million in May 2015. Menards often has long build-out times, according to Springfield Business Journal reporting. The company last year opened a $23 million store in Hollister — also built by Immel Construction — after announcing it in May 2014.

“The permits on this deal got hung up and took a little extra time,” Schneider said of the North Eastgate plans.

On the Queen City’s west side, dirt is moving where Menards plans to build a store across from Springfield Plaza near Sunshine Street and West Bypass. Building permits have not been issued on the project, and Immel Construction is not involved. Abbott was unable to provide details by deadline.

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