SEQUIM — The field between two of Sequim’s biggest big box stores could have a new occupant: Ross Dress for Less.
First Western Properties, the leasing agent for the Sequim Village Marketplace on West Washington Street, has posted a flier online showing Ross, a discount department store, smack between the 147,000-square-foot Costco Wholesale warehouse and the 132,000-square-foot Home Depot.
The flier can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/yhgmgjb.
The lease, however, “is not signed yet,” First Western agent Angela Oliveri said Tuesday afternoon.
But apparently, it’s close.
Oliveri said next week, she will have a more definitive answer to the “is Ross coming to Sequim, and when?” question.
Lease finalizing
“There are some issues” with finalizing the lease terms, Oliveri said.
The would-be builders of the Ross store have gone through the city’s design review process, added Joe Irvin, Sequim’s associate planner.
“They have yet to submit anything yet” in the way of a building permit application, Irvin said.
Repeated calls this week to Ross Dress for Less’ corporate headquarters in Pleasanton, Calif., went unreturned.
Ross, whose closest outlet is in Silverdale, has much of the rest of the United States covered.
Some 903 stores sell brand-name clothing, shoes, bedding, furniture, beauty products, jewelry and housewares at prices that are 20 percent to 60 percent below regular department stores and boutiques.
Meanwhile, another discount retailer, Grocery Outlet, has also been talked about as a prospective tenant of the Sequim Village Marketplace.
And though Irvin said it too went through the building-design review process last summer, he has yet to see any concrete plans.
‘We have no deal’
“It’s entirely possible that we have researched putting one in,” Grocery Outlet spokeswoman Kelly Knight said Tuesday.
But the company’s vice president of real estate, Marc Drasin, said flatly, “We have no deal.”
Grocery Outlet, described on its Web site as an “extreme-value retailer” of foods, has more than 130 locations in six western U.S. states.
Nearest to Sequim are its locations in Bremerton and Marysville; the chain also has four stores in Seattle.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Reporter Diane Urbani de la Paz can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at diane.urbani@peninsuladailynews.com.
