Meijer to build in southeast Urbana

URBANA – Meijer intends to start construction this fall on a 208,000-square-foot store in southeast Urbana.

The Grand Rapids, Mich., retailer expects to open its second store in Champaign-Urbana in the spring of 2008, on 32 acres it owns at the northeast corner of Windsor and Philo roads in Urbana, said Greg Heath, director of real estate for Meijer.

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