New Grocery Store Construction Begins at Sunrise Village
Apr 29, 2024 03:36PM ● By Thomas J. Sullivan, photos by Thomas J. Sullivan
CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA (MPG) - Interior construction has started in a prominent commercial suite space at the Sunrise Village shopping center on the northwest corner of Sunrise Boulevard and Madison Avenue, where an unnamed grocery tenant is slated to open in the space.
The general contractor, W.L. Butler, headquartered in Redwood City, has fenced off a substantial portion of the parking lot, setting up temporary mobile offices and equipment at the job site, which is to the left of Jo-Ann Fabric and Crafts.
W.L. Butler, with additional office locations in Livermore, Stockton and Irvine, specializes in the construction of commercial mixed-use, retail and grocery projects throughout California.
Marisa Brown, Citrus Heights communication spokeswoman, responded on behalf of the city building department.
“5425 Sunrise Boulevard in Sunrise Village has numerous permits for various construction to prepare for the tenant improvements specific to the grocery store,” Brown said.
“The (primary) tenant improvement permit has not been issued yet but we anticipate it will be issued in the next few weeks,” she added.
W.L. Butler is sharing a large portion of the parking lot space in the Sunrise Village Shopping Center with Moorefield Construction, a family-owned general contractor, with offices in Sacramento and Santa Ana, which is building out Club Studio, a new 36,152-square-foot fitness club scheduled to open this summer.

A substantial part of the parking lot is fenced off for construction.
Moorefield Construction has completed the gutting and reconstruction of all the existing commercial spaces with the exception of the closed Rite Aid drug store within the Sunrise Village Shopping Center and built out new space for the two new anchor tenants, City Sport and the retail grocery store under construction.
A W.L. Butler on-site construction superintendent confirmed that interior work has started at the Sunrise Village Shopping Center job site but referred further comment to its corporate office, which did not respond to either an email or phone request by press time.
The tenant is listed as “grocer coming soon” in online marketing information by the property owner MerloneGeier Partners of San Francisco. Sunrise Marketplace executive director Kathilynn Carpenter confirmed in an earlier email that the name of the grocer planning to open has not yet been released.
Redevelopment of the 150,000-square-foot Sunrise Village shopping center has been ongoing since the first quarter of 2021.
Sunrise Village Plaza at the corner of Madison Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard in Citrus Heights is owned by the San Francisco-based Merlone-Geier investment company. The center is undergoing a $15 to $20 million remodeling and expansion project, which also includes new landscaping and upgraded signage.