Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
A customer on Saturday afternoon prepares to walk into the Family Dollar store in Tucumcari. It will undergo an extensive renovation and expansion in mid-January that will close the store for two months.
The Family Dollar in Tucumcari will begin extensive renovations in mid-January that will close the store for two months but would add more than 2,500 square feet to its footprint.
Kayleigh Painter, a manager, investor and media relations representative for Dollar Tree, which owns Family Dollar, stated in an email to the Quay County Sun on Thursday the renovations to the Tucumcari store at 112 W. Tucumcari Blvd. would increase its space from 9,385 square feet to 11,931 square feet.
"The refreshed store will provide even greater values and more convenience to our shoppers," Painter said.
Painter said the store's last day of operations before renovations begin would be during the Jan. 13-16 time frame.
She said it is scheduled to reopen March 18, "but those dates are subject to change."
Megan Salazar, a manager at the store, said Saturday it would expand into a vacant space on the west side of the building that once housed a fitness center.
Painter said Family Dollars of the size operating in Tucumcari typically employ six to 10 people.
"During expansion projects, we work with associates impacted by the temporary closure to retain their employment status at neighboring stores," Painter wrote.
The nearest other Family Dollar locations are in Logan, Santa Rosa and Clovis.
According to the Quay County Assessor's Office, the Family Dollar building is owned by DBB Holdings in Reno, Nevada.
The Virginia-based Family Dollar chain contains more than 8,000 stores in 46 sites. Dollar Tree, which acquired the chain in 2015, operates more than 15,000 stores in 48 states and Canada.