The Planning & Transportation Commission recently gave the green light for a 25,580-square-foot Smart & Final Extra! store in the Marguerite Shopping Center at Trabuco Road.
The Smart and Final Extra! grocery store will feature fresh meats, produce, frozen foods, dairy, deli, bread and snacks along with beer, wine and distilled spirits. The commission’s approval makes way for exterior building and site improvements as well as an ABC license for the store at 24021 Marguerite Parkway, Suites A-C.
The shopping center improvement project includes a building façade renovation, site landscaping enhancements, wall and monument signage, and new cart corrals and trash enclosures. It also calls for a 2,100-square-foot addition to the back of the building for Leslie’s Pool Supply and to restore the loading dock previously used by Safeway.
Along with the shopping center improvements and work for Smart & Final Extra!, three of the existing tenants will relocate within the shopping center. Leslie’s Pool Supply will move to a new suite, just south of its current location. Mission Viejo Florist and Vista Cleaners will move to new suites north of the new Smart & Final Extra! store. The relocations are expected to be finished this year with the opening of Smart & Final Extra! anticipated in March 2015.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, where it started 140 years ago, Smart & Final Stores, Inc. operates about 250 grocery and food service stores under the “Smart & Final”; “Smart & Final Extra!”; and “Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice” banners in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and northern Mexico.
Kelly Tokarski
City of Mission Viejo
Public Information Specialist
