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Midstate and Safeway continue their 51 year working
relationship with the construction of the new Mendocino
Marketplace in Santa Rosa, located at 2210 and 2300
Mendocino Avenue. The newly built 56,130 square foot
Safeway Store and 10,400 square foot of retail shops
sit on 7.23 acres. Two additional retail shops buildings,
totaling 21,874 square feet are scheduled to commence
construction this spring.
Construction began with the demolition of the existing
Yardbird's store and site work in late April 2003.
The existing Yardbird's store was originally built
as a Safeway Store in the early 1950's.
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The new Safeway Store and the adjacent
retail shops; consisting of 7 retail units ranging
from 1,100 to 2,101 square feet, opened to the public
in November 2003. The shell of the Safeway and retail
shops are comprised of 50,000 8"x8"x16" concrete
masonry unit blocks designed to create the illusion
of multiple buildings instead of one large building.
The entire shell sits on a 900+ yard concrete slab
that was poured in a single day.
Construction of the Marketplace took
careful planning as the hours of construction were
designed to not disturb the bordering residential
streets. Despite the strict hours of construction,
the store and retail shops were built in 131 days.
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