From the Ground Up: Hy-Vee Supermarket

Owner/developer: Hy-Vee Inc. (Des Moines, Iowa)
General contractor: Hy-Vee Weitz (Des Moines, Iowa)
Architect: Hy-Vee Engineering (Des Moines, Iowa)
Engineers: Emory Sapp & Sons Inc., civil; Doing Steel Fabrication LLC, structural; Gold Mechanical Inc., mechanical; Fitch Electric LLC, electrical; and Kimberling City Plumbing Inc., plumbing  
Size: 86,060 square feet
Estimated cost: $17 million
Lender: None
Estimated completion date: Nov. 1
Project description: The new supermarket under way at the southeast corner of Kansas Expressway and Battlefield Road is expected to create up to 400 jobs when it opens later this year, according to www.hy-vee.com. Store amenities are slated to include a food court, health and wellness center with on-site dietitian, and its own distributing arm, according to Springfield Business Journal archives. Last summer, the city approved a community improvement district for the 14.5-acre site, allowing a half-cent sales tax to be charged within the district to fund infrastructure improvements. Hy-Vee plans to invest nearly $1 million in road upgrades and a new traffic signal at the location.[[In-content Ad]]