People wait for the grand opening of the Walmart Neighborhood Market in North Chesterfield. Photos by Katie Demeria.
Walmart’s push into the Richmond grocery industry continues as its first two local Neighborhood Markets open their doors.
The company held grand openings Wednesday morning for new stores at 5700 Hopkins Road in North Chesterfield and at 9714 Sliding Hill Road in Ashland.
Neighborhood Market is Walmart’s smaller, grocer-focused concept that has a 41,000-square-foot store layout.
The new Chesterfield location will anchor the planned revitalization of Meadowbrook Shopping Center. The grocery store is expected to attract new tenants to the 50-year-old center, which now has mostly empty storefronts.
Meadowbrook’s current tenants include an ABC store, Dollar General, Pizza Hut and Wells Fargo. A Radio Shack recently closed there.
Store manager Jason Beck said construction on the Meadowbrook store has been ongoing since last summer. WM. A. Randolph Inc. was the general contractor for the project.
The new Ashland store is in the King’s Charter Shopping Center.
Walmart would not disclose the development costs for the new stores.
The company has at least two other Neighborhood Markets in the works in the area. Construction is underway on a store in the Watermark Town Center off Iron Bridge Road in Chesterfield and on the site of a former roadside motel on Brook Road in Henrico County.
The retail giant also has a new a Supercenter – its larger store concept – planned as part of the forthcoming Eastgate Town Center that will be built on the site of Fairfield Commons Mall on Nine Mile Road. And a Walmart on Campus store will open on Grace Street near VCU this spring.
People wait for the grand opening of the Walmart Neighborhood Market in North Chesterfield. Photos by Katie Demeria.
Walmart’s push into the Richmond grocery industry continues as its first two local Neighborhood Markets open their doors.
The company held grand openings Wednesday morning for new stores at 5700 Hopkins Road in North Chesterfield and at 9714 Sliding Hill Road in Ashland.
Neighborhood Market is Walmart’s smaller, grocer-focused concept that has a 41,000-square-foot store layout.
The new Chesterfield location will anchor the planned revitalization of Meadowbrook Shopping Center. The grocery store is expected to attract new tenants to the 50-year-old center, which now has mostly empty storefronts.
Meadowbrook’s current tenants include an ABC store, Dollar General, Pizza Hut and Wells Fargo. A Radio Shack recently closed there.
Store manager Jason Beck said construction on the Meadowbrook store has been ongoing since last summer. WM. A. Randolph Inc. was the general contractor for the project.
The new Ashland store is in the King’s Charter Shopping Center.
Walmart would not disclose the development costs for the new stores.
The company has at least two other Neighborhood Markets in the works in the area. Construction is underway on a store in the Watermark Town Center off Iron Bridge Road in Chesterfield and on the site of a former roadside motel on Brook Road in Henrico County.
The retail giant also has a new a Supercenter – its larger store concept – planned as part of the forthcoming Eastgate Town Center that will be built on the site of Fairfield Commons Mall on Nine Mile Road. And a Walmart on Campus store will open on Grace Street near VCU this spring.
Love, love, love, the new store. It’s clean, well stocked, the self-checkout scanners are the best I’ve used in any store, it is three minutes from my home, and open 24 hours. I get in and out of there FAST. Throw in the Redbox and the pharmacy and it’s everything I hoped for from the new store. Love ya Martin’s, but really, have had no reason to drive further to pay more.