JANESVILLE — Grocery chain Hy-Vee will throw open the doors next week on its multimillion-dollar revamp of a former ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ Shopko store.
This week, construction contractors working for West Des Moines, Iowa, grocery chain Hy-Vee cordoned off the former Shopko property at 2029 Humes Road with fencing and dark, cloth windscreens as it begins work to turn the building into a new supermarket.
City of ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ officials say they’re in discussions with Des Moines, Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee about a plan to buy and renovate the former Shopko and convert it into a full-service grocery and liquor store.
The Blain’s Farm & Fleet store in Monroe will relocate to the vacant Shopko building in Monroe, according to a company news release.
The e-commerce trends decimating local retail limit our enthusiasm for Amazon's planned distribution facility in Beloit.
The former Shopko property on Humes Road in ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ now joins the acres of defunct real estate on the city's east-side retail corridor that are tied to corporate bankruptcy. What happens with spaces like the former Shopko?
Shopko's decision to close all its stores mean 1,715 people in Wisconsin will lose their jobs. Of those 1,715 jobs, 60 are in ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½.
The ÌÇÐÄVlog´«Ã½ Shopko store will close, likely by early this summer, according to an announcement by the ailing retailer Monday.
The Beloit Shopko store will lose 58 employees and the Delavan store will lose 52, according to a state notice issued Wednesday. Both stores will begin letting employees go around May 6.Â
The Beloit and Delavan Shopko stores are set to close in May, the company announced Thursday.

