Nielsen Builders Harrisonburg Virginia

Daily News Record
Monday, August 7, 2007

Skyline Village Shops Get Face-Lift

The retailers at Skyline Village Shopping Center are getting new facades for their stores.

Kimco Realty Corp., the Maryland-based owner of the shopping center, has hired Nielsen Builders Inc. to spruce up the 11 retail spaces between Kohl's and the new Martin's Food Market, said Nielsen project manager Joe Miller.

The roofs will be painted to match Martin's. Flat metal signs have been removed and will be replaced with three-dimensional signs. And building fronts will be resurfaced, Miller said.

The $109,000 project, which just started last week, should be completed in "around six weeks," Miller said.

Martin's Food Market will open "toward the end of September," a company spokeswoman said.

The new Martin's at the site of the former Toys "R" Us, is being built by Dimarco Constructors of Rochester, N.Y., at a cost of $5.5 million.

The building includes two additional retail spaces of about 2,400 square feet each, which Martin's will lease, Miller said.

The new facades and the opening of Martin's will complete a renovation of the shopping center which began in the spring of 2004, when Kohl's opened in a $3 million building at the site of the former Rack 'n Sack.

"I think the goal was to bring the center up to current standards as other centers in town," Miller said.

-Dan Wright

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