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Written by Jonathan Partridge / Patterson Irrigator
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
“I think it's going great. I couldn’t be happier.”
— Sam Watson
Patterson Marketplace principal
A paint store became Save Mart Supermarkets’ first neighbor in several years this month, opening in a newly expanding portion of the Patterson Marketplace shopping center.
Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams opened the 5,200-square-foot store Dec. 10 in one of three buildings — totaling nearly 36,500 square feet — at West Las Palmas and Ward avenues.
Nearly 70 percent of the shopping center’s new area already has lease commitments, including a 10,032-square-foot Dollar Tree store next door to Sherwin-Williams that is slated to open Feb. 3.
As other stores prepare to move in, Sherwin-Williams store manager Lesley Powell said the new paint store already has gotten lots of local attention.
“It’s nice to see people get so excited,” Powell said.
Sherwin-Williams, which has more than 3,000 stores in North America, has nearby stores in Turlock, Modesto and Tracy.
Powell, a Westley resident who has opened and managed Sherwin-Williams stores in Los Banos and Paso Robles in the past, said Patterson was targeted for a new store in part because of recent growth trends.
“It’s the new-growth area,” she said.
In addition to selling paint, workers can do color consulting and match paint colors with those already in homes.
Mike Yasukochi, Sherwin-Williams’ Central Valley district manager, said the store caters to a range of customers, including industries, commercial painters and do-it-yourselfers.
“All we do is focus on paint,” he said.
Next door, the shelves are installed and the interior is completed at soon-to-open Dollar Tree, where construction superintendent James Holst said the shelves will start to be stocked Jan. 23. In the meantime, the store has had applicants show up throughout each day, and Holst anticipates receiving more than 100 applications by the time it is all over.
Dollar Tree spokeswoman Shelley Davis said each store typically employs as many as 18 people when opening.
Dollar Tree already has stores in Modesto and Tracy, with a forthcoming store to be built in Turlock.
Everything at Dollar Tree is $1 or two for $1, Davis said. The store contains both private-label and national-brand products.
Holst said the Virginia-based chain plans to build 600 stores in California in the next two years.
“Dollar Tree is a big, growing store,” he said.
 Patterson resident Chante Munoz drops off an application to Robert Dickieson, a construction worker at Dollar Tree in the Patterson Marketplace shopping center. Dollar Tree plans to open Feb. 3 Photo by Elias Funez / Patterson Irrigator
In addition to the building that holds Dollar Tree and Sherwin-Williams, the exteriors for Patterson Marketplace’s other two new buildings are complete.
Other future tenants include a beauty supply store, a nail salon, a Verizon wireless center, a Subway sandwich eatery and dentist Ricky Brar. In addition, the Gray family that owns Mil’s Bar & Grill plans to open another eatery in the shopping center, named Shooters Wings & Things.
Randy Brekke of Modesto-based Brekke Real Estate, which is handling leasing for the shopping center project, said he has been talking with a couple of other potential tenants for the project, but he did not wish to say who they were until they had committed.
Meanwhile, Sam Watson, a principal for Patterson Marketplace, said he is pleased with how the shopping center is turning out so far.
“I think it’s going great,” he said. “I couldn’t be happier.”
To reach Jonathan Partridge at the Irrigator, call 892-6187 or e-mail him at jonathan@patterson
irrigator.com
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