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Show City Market Expansion Project is Underway Plans for expansion and remodeling of Moab's City Market store are now underway under-way with general contractor for the project, Phillips Construction Con-struction Company of Moab doing the actual work. The new building, to be 24 by 96 feet long, is to be constructed con-structed along the north side of the present building and will be used to house the storeroom, loading area, employees' em-ployees' lounge, restrooms and office of the store. The construction of the new addition addi-tion will allow the present floor space to be expanded into what is now the stock room, where additional frozen froz-en food storage will be made along with a larger produce section. In the area which now houses the office, the partitions parti-tions will be removed and the space utilized for creation of a new non-foods department In addition to this all new shelves will be installed in the store to replace those now being used and new checkstands will also be erected. er-ected. Occording to Gene Cary, manager, when the first construction of the store was done, new shelves wers to be installed but were lost when a fire destroyed a warehouse in which ther were being kept. As a result, used shelving has been usg.d at the store until this time. It is hoped that the new building will be ready in about three weeks and that all moving of merchandise and other items will be completed complet-ed within two months. The addition of the new section of the building will move tha - loading docks to the rear "of the building. |