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Today's the big day that the new Burlington Coat Factory, located in the building that used to be Wal*Mart, has its grand opening.

Update: a few pictures from inside, and a report from the Nevada Appeal.

One comes in while another leaves town. The Nevada Appeal has a story about Carson City swapping Mervyns, which is closing in a couple months, for Burlington Coat Factory, which opens in about two weeks.

The new 70,000-square-foot Burlington store that will sell the discounted name-brand clothes and home accessories available in its nearly 400 other stores is scheduled to open Aug. 29. The Mervyns company announced Wednesday that the Carson City store would close along with three others in Northern Nevada.

The exterior signage is now up at Burlington Coat Factory. Besides coats they also sell Baby Depots and Home Decor, plus probably dozens of other things. A quick peek inside shows the racks and headless mannequins moving into position, readying for the grand opening.

You can also see that they've kept the "Wal-Mart Stripe" on the building, even though they've painted it a shade of red. And they've chosen pink as part of their palette of colors, so that's pretty fantastic. Luckily, when I took a closeup of the wall, the camera decided to color-correct it to more of a brown. My camera can be so judgmental.

I've been breezing around town checking up on all the construction that's going on now.

The Carson-Tahoe Quail park at the south end of town seems to be mostly done. The sign is up, there are trees planted in the parking lot, and the buildings seem to be finished, at least on the exterior. Now all they need are tenants.

Burlington Coat Factory has been remodeling the old Wal*Mart at Clearview. At least the half of it that they didn't tear down. Here the new facade seems to be mostly done, although the bottom half of the building is still sporting the old paint job.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken on north Carson Street is getting a major facelift. It's so drastic that the restaurant has had to close for the duration.

This project on Curry Street is coming along nicely too. Already the ground floor is done, and it looks like they're starting on a second.

Besides these photos, there is also work going on at the old Harley Davidson building on north Carson (just past the KFC) converting it into a Harbor Freight Tools. And work on the Carson Mall is continuing; I need to stop by there and take pictures of that. And of course the freeway construction is in full swing, as is the repaving job on Fairview.

Rehabilitation work on the old Wat*Mart building didn't end with the demolition of the southern half. They're still working on the remaining part of the building to convert it to a Burlington Coat Factory. Here you see work on making the facade larger.

And here you see a couple of fellows inside working on the floor.

And yep, the southern half is still demolished. Supposedly they'll be starting on the Sportsman's Warehouse soon.

I didn't see this one coming. We've known for a while that the old Wal*Mart building in Carson City was going to be remodeled to make room for a Burlington Coat Factory and Sportsman's Warehouse. And I posted pictures last month of the work they had done already, building a dividing wall to split the old cavernous building into two slightly less cavernous spaces. I thought the north space would be for Burlington, and the south space would be for Sportsman's Warehouse. It looks like I was half right.

Bam!

Boom!

The south half of the building is actually being demolished so that Sportsman's Warehouse can build a new structure. I didn't see this coming at all. The north half is being retained and converted to Burlington, but the south half is going bye-bye, and going fast.

The new wall they built is now an exterior wall.

Burlington Coat Factory is now hiring.

This is the most action this site has seen since 2002, when the new Carson Valley Wal*Mart opened and this building was vacated. It was bought almost immediately by Max Baer Jr., to convert into the Beverly Hillbillies Casino, but a dispute with JC Penney and the shopping center owners prevented that from happening. He finally sold the building last year (and made a $4 million profit) and now, finally, after six years, something is happening.

The back wall is still standing...for the moment.

So this is the reason that the Sportsman's Warehouse isn't going to open until a year from now, while Burlington is supposed to be opening in late summer. It takes a long time to build from scratch.

And remember, all this construction is being paid for with your tax dollars, Carson City, so enjoy!

Update to the Wal*Mart story from a couple of days ago. They're currently remodeling the building to house Burlington Coat Factory and Sportsman's Warehouse. I swung by to get pictures of the remodeling.

I had been noticing for the last couple of weeks that there were some work trucks clustered around the building, specifically around this gaping hole in the wall. I never stopped to take pictures; slacking off on the job, I know. And from glancing at it when I drove by, I thought this was maybe an access door that was already there. But when you see it up close, you can see that no, it's a new door that they carved out of the wall. Big honking door, too.

So what's inside the door? Armageddon.

It looks like a giant block wall came crashing, fully-formed, through the ceiling. The same space aliens that built the pyramids are remodeling Wal*Marts now. Or the more mundane explanation is that this is the new dividing wall between the two stores, splitting the building in half. They didn't want this to be just some quick cheap subdividing job, though. They were pretty thorough here, building the new wall all the way up to, and through, the roof, with new roof joists and everything. It's a lot of work, but when you want to do it right you want to do it right.

Rubble, trash, and various detritus is piled up on the other side of the room. It's hard to believe this is the same Wal*Mart we used to shop at. I think we're looking at the hardware and housewares department here. The work on the Burlington Coat Factory was supposed to be finished in March, but they just are starting now. The coat factory should be done by August; Sportsman's Warehouse in about a year.

Remember two months ago, when Jethro sold the old Wal*Mart building at the south end of town? It was bought by a company that specializes in getting retailers into used spaces like that, but back in May there were no announcements about what kind of retailer might move in. Well, now we finally have an announcement on that front. Burlington Coat Factory has signed a letter of intent to move onto the premises, opening as soon as next February.