Groundbreaking Scheduled for Summer 2010
Property Development Centers (PDC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Safeway Inc., announced today that it will begin construction on approximately 13 acres in the Canyon Park area of Bothell, Washington to develop a 150,000-square-foot shopping center that will be anchored by a new Safeway supermarket. Construction is slated to start in this summer with an opening in 2011.
The new center Lakeside at Canyon Park will be located at the southwest corner of 240th Street and Everett – Bothell Highway. Canyon Park is an upscale community of over 4,000 existing single-family homes and apartment units. The project will include seven retail buildings in addition to the Safeway store.
"We are excited to begin this project and bring to the people of Bothell and The Canyon Park area the superior shopping experience, convenience and retail variety that they need and deserve," said David Zylstra, Chief Operating Officer of PDC.
The Safeway store at Canyon Park will be over 50,000 square feet and will feature full-service seafood, meat and deli departments, as well as a full-service bakery, and a Starbucks. The store will also have expanded organic and conventional produce departments, expanded beer and wine selection and a full-service pharmacy.
"This is going to be a special store with a broad range of products and services tailored to tastes and needs of the Canyon Park community," said Safeway Seattle Division President Greg Sparks. "We have been serving the Bothell market continuously for nearly 60 years, and we look forward to extending that record through this important project."
ABOUT PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
Property Development Centers is a national shopping center development company developing centers for and with Safeway as one of the major anchor tenants. PDC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Safeway Inc., a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America, based on sales. Safeway Inc. operates 1,712 stores in the United States and western Canada and had annual sales of $40.8 billion in 2009.
Contacts:
PDC
Brian Dowling, 925-467-3787
or
Safeway
Cherie
Myers, 206-201-6465