Article: Shopping center update moves closer to goal.(Business)

Byline: RETAIL NOTEBOOK By Edward Russo The Register-Guard

The planned renovation of south Eugene's largest shopping center, near 29th Avenue and Willamette Street, appears close to clearing a key hurdle.

The owner of Willamette Plaza and anchor tenant Rite Aid Corp. hope to finish negotiations for a new store lease in the next few weeks.

Under the proposed plan, Rite Aid would move from its too-large building to a smaller structure that the landlord, Portland-based Standard Insurance Co., would build close to West 29th Avenue.

That would allow Standard to raze the old, 78,000-square-foot Rite Aid building. In its place, Standard would ...

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