Cub Foods to Break Ground for New Phalen Store Tuesday, March 18.

Project seeking LEED certification

STILLWATER, Minn. -- To provide great food and low prices to shoppers in the Phalen neighborhood of St. Paul, Cub Foods announces the groundbreaking of its newest store. The groundbreaking ceremony will be held at 11:15am, Tuesday, March 18 at the new store site located at Clarence St. and Maryland Ave in St. Paul.

Expected to speak at the ceremony include St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, St. Paul Councilmember Dan Bostrom and Curt Craig, Cub Food's vice president of Store Development. Among the others attending the ceremony will be Oppidan's Paul Tucci; Chuck Repke, executive director of the Northeast Neighborhood Development Corporation; Kraus-Anderson CEO Bruce Engelsma; and Douglas Jaeger, Kraus-Anderson's vice president and project manager for the construction.

"We are thrilled to become part of the Phalen neighborhood and serve the community," said Cub Food's Curt Craig. "We're looking forward to offering local residents the value, selection and quality they've come to expect from Cub."

The project is seeking LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, which is the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Green Building Rating System[TM]. LEED is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED promotes a whole-building approach to sustainability by recognizing performance in five key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.

Some of the environmentally sustainable features of the project include water efficient landscaping, enhanced refrigerant management, and water use and light pollution reduction. A white, Energy Star roof will also be installed for maximum energy performance. The major building materials will contain 20-90 percent recycled content and 75 percent of the construction waste will be recycled.

The store will utilize skylights and windows coupled with photometric sensors tied to the sales floor lighting to cut electrical usage during the day. Special features will also include a green pest control program, green cleaning program and will use reduced mercury lighting. The new Cub Foods location will offer tours and have a LEED education program in place.

Kraus-Anderson Construction Company will oversee construction on this long-awaited neighborhood development. The 6.6-acre site will feature the 60,000-square-foot Cub Foods and three buildings totaling 14,175 square feet of additional retail space. The retail buildings are designed with the same materials as Cub Foods to provide aesthetic continuity to the project. The project's retail and office developer is Minnetonka, Minn.-based Oppidan.

"Our goal was to transform the property into a safe, stable attractive community center that will also enhance property values," said Paul Tucci, lead developer for Oppidan, the project's retail and office developer based in Minnetonka, Minn.

Cub Foods provides consumers with the freshest produce, widest selection and greatest value available today. In addition to innovative natural, ethnic and certified organic food sections, Cub stores offer shoppers added conveniences, such as in-store pharmacy and banking. Cub Foods was established in 1968 as one of the nation's first discount grocery stores. The organization was purchased in 1980 by SUPERVALU and currently operates 57 stores in the Twin Cities.