Over Budget Construction Bids Delay Savon

Plans for drugstore returning to forefront
GRAND TERRACE: The 13,500-square-foot Sav-On is held up by budget woes, officials say.
01:34 AM PDT on Saturday, July 16, 2005
By PAUL LAROCCO / The Press-Enterprise
SAV-ON

The building at Barton Road and Mt. Vernon Avenue would be Grand Terrace's second-largest retail store.
Ceremonial groundbreaking was held in May, but construction snags have set the project back several months.
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....... Sav-On, the city's first drug store in more than 10 years, was originally set to open later this year, but Schwab said a best-case scenario would be a January or February completion.

Construction costs aside, Schwab said he has no doubt Jacobsen and Sav-On are committed to bringing the store to Grand Terrace.
"It looks like they've solved the problem," he said, noting that some clearing work had begun again on the site. "It looks like we've only lost two months."

Councilwoman Bea Cortes said the store is one of the city's most important pending developments, since many residents would rather not drive to Colton, Loma Linda or Riverside to fill prescriptions.
"It's the kind of thing you want to have in your own city," Cortes said.


Reach Paul LaRocco at (909) 806-3056 or plarocco@pe.com


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Grandpaterrace Comments:

Please Read the ENTIRE Article:

Interesting Facts: Grand Terrace has had 2 Pharmacies in town, and neither could compete with Kaiser, or at the time Thrifties (Now RiteAid in Colton). Driving to the Doctor and to the Colton Kaiser Clinic will not be changing when Savon Builds their Drug Store. I wonder if there was a true market survey done by Savon? What are they thinking? How about a Clarks Nutrition Center, or a Fruit Stand.... As for this being one of the "MOST" Important Developments in the City. Well, there is a reason that no drug store has been in town for 10 years. and the others failed. What we will have is an empty high priced building in mid town.

Anonymous said...
If the construction costs are over budget on the drug store, and it cannot be built now, then why are we trusting that this developer could build something even larger and make it successful? Just asking.
10:15 AM

Grandpaterrace answers:
Well, I think the answer will be... It's not the City's Problem if the Cost run the Developer More. It is not the City's problem that the Developer Fails to finish Town Center..The City will have aquired or made available a block of land for some other Developer which will benefit from the work This Developer has done.The City's Design Requirements cost more than a typical structure would cost. It would be interesting to know how much of the cost over budget is due to City's Design or Window Dressing Code.