Transforming the former Food Lion in the West Beaches into a Walmart Neighborhood Market will be at least a $2.1 million renovation, records show.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which already has converted five former Food Lions in Northeast Florida, intends to open the market in July at the Village Shoppes at San Pablo.
It should create 95 jobs, a spokeswoman said previously.
No contractor is shown on a building-permit application.
Food Lion closed all of its Jacksonville grocery stores, including the 1650 San Pablo Road S. location at southwest San Pablo and Atlantic Boulevard. It was one of Food Lion’s newer designs when it opened.
Because of that, Walmart is leasing a larger store for a Neighborhood Market than it traditionally uses.
This one will be 48,132 square feet of enclosed and 3,407 square feet of unenclosed space, compared with the typical 38,000-square-foot market.
The San Pablo store will be the area’s sixth Wal-Mart Stores grocery-store concept in the area. The property is owned by Rosen San Pablo LLC.
Walmart spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said previously that Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores designed Neighborhood Markets in 1998 as a smaller-footprint option.
The markets offer fresh produce, a full grocery department with a bakery and deli, a pharmacy with the chain’s popular $4 generic prescriptions, health and beauty supplies and select household items.
They’re a quarter of the size of a typical 182,000-square-foot Walmart Supercenter, which offers groceries along with its general merchandise and services.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart Stores also intends to open a Walmart Supercenter in Southwest Jacksonville in spring 2016, creating 300 jobs.
Developer Gatlin Development Co. Inc. bought property in December at Collins Road and Interstate 295 and immediately sold some acreage to Wal-Mart Stores East L.P.
Henneberg said construction is expected to begin in the spring and construction takes about a year. Building plans indicate it will be a $7.8 million construction project. It should be about 190,000 square feet.
Phil’s Shoes plans Jan. 31 closing
Phil’s Shoes owner Mark Lewis said Wednesday the last day of the store’s final sale will be Jan. 31. After that, it will close unless a buyer takes over.
Lewis is the owner and president of the company, which was started by his grandfather 54 years ago. It began its store-closing sale in late December.
The store is at 44th and Pearl streets, north of Springfield. It has been liquidating more than 6,000 pairs of shoes along with more than 800 handbags along with accessories.
Customers were buying several pairs at a time Wednesday morning at discounted prices.
At 5316 N. Pearl St., the business has long been serving women, especially African-American women, who were looking for dress, occasion and casual shoes with a difference.
Lewis said that competition with big-box and department stores as well as online retailers, along with the loss of vendors who also have closed, has become increasingly tough. Plus, Lewis said that at 54, he doesn’t have the energy to devote to the business as he formerly did.
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