Wednesday, April 25, 2012
The fast food joint claims the city’s decision was favored toward Menards and detrimental to the survival of the business.
After Menards received its final city approvals for the total reconstruction of its Richfield store at the end of 2011, the home improvement store’s eastern neighbor, Burger King, has sued the city. According to Richfield Community Development Director John Stark, Burger King alleges that the city gave “custom” approvals to Menards that wouldn’t have been available to all and the resulting new superstore would be detrimental to the business. Burger King representatives attempted to stop the city’s approvals at a Dec. 13, 2011 Richfield City Council public hearing to approve the store plat—which immediately followed the approval of a conditional use permit. Reps also presented a proposal to move the restaurant to the northwest corner of the…
Monday, October 31, 2011
The former store spaces have no concrete prospects of new tenants following the Halloween holiday.
While the former Borders and Blockbuster spaces have only been vacant a handful of months, they'll be empty again once their temporary Halloween stores close in early November. This, in addition to other large Richfield retail spaces that have been vacant for years—among them, Kmart, Bridgemans and Lyndale Garden Center—doesn't bode for Richfield's retail real estate market. While both the former Borders or Blockbuster spaces appear to have desirable locations, neither has a post-Halloween tenant in line. The 5,411-square-foot former Blockbuster is on the corner of the Hub Shopping Center, in sight of 66th Street. The Borders space is in the Shops at Lyndale, along I-494. Matt Johnson, head leasing agent for the Hub Shopping Center, said …
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Monday, June 27, 2011
With the possible plans to build an LA Fitness so close to two other Richfield fitness facilities, Richfield Patch attempts to find out if its addition would drive business or pose too much competition.
For nearly two years, the former site of Richfield’s Kmart has sat vacant at the corner of 65th Street and Lyndale Avenue, and residents have been wondering what will take its place. Many were excited to find out that Wellington Management Inc. was in the process of purchasing the property and that its development plans included a brand new LA Fitness facility, among other possible tenants. LA Fitness is a national chain of fitness facilities that boasts rows of workout equipment, a variety of group fitness classes, pools, saunas, a juice bar and many more amenties to its members. However, with Bally's Total Fitness and Snap Fitness just a few yards away, it begs the question of whether the coming of another gym would add too much …
Dan Mc
8:49 am on Tuesday, September 18, 2012
I used to work for Menards & I think that eventually they will buy the property. The one driving force behind all business decisions is money. Eventually the property owners will realize that Menards is the only entity that will buy that property. If Menards can get a good deal on it (which eventually, they will) They'll probably put up some cold storage or lumber buildings there. Menards has … more ›