Just two weeks after its plans were denied for constructing a new Price Chopper supermarket in Clifton Park, NY, the Golub Corp. is now seeking permission to renovate its largest store in town.
The 77,000-square-foot store at Shopper’s World plaza on Route 146, near Northway Exit 9, would get a new facade, drive-thru pharmacy, Starbucks, QuickCare Clinic, additional parking and other improvements.
"The renovation of our Clifton Shopper's World supermarket will continue to evolve our store design concepts forward, allowing us to incorporate the best of what we've done with innovative offers that address newly emerging trends and our customers' changing needs," said Mona Golub, spokeswoman for the Schenectady-based supermarket chain.
The company just finished a top-to-bottom overhaul of its store in Latham, now called Market Bistro by Price Chopper, where new ideas and concepts will be tested and possibly included in future stores.
The changes planned in Clifton Park are not on the scale of what was done in Latham, but include elements, such as the Starbucks and QuickCare Clinic, that are now in some of its other stores.
The 20-year-old store is owned by Windsor Cos., a real estate development firm that also owns the Village Plaza across Route 146, an outdoor shopping center anchored by Hannaford.
The application to renovate the Price Chopper was presented this week to the town Planning Board and will be reviewed again at an upcoming meeting.
In mid-March, the Planning Board voted against recommending a zoning change that developer Nigro Cos. sought to allow the construction of a new Price Chopper farther west in town, at the corner of Routes 146 and 146A. That store is intended to replace an older, smaller store diagonally across the street.
Nigro Cos. intends to make changes to those plans and resubmit its application.