With the recent sale of the former Shopko building in Monmouth to Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp, Mayor Rod Davies informs City Council has approved a change in zoning designation on the property:
“The Plan Commission considered a zoning district change at 1190 North Sixth Street, the old Shopko building. We had a request to change the zoning from B4 Highway Commercial to MT General Manufacturing. The Plan Commission approved that unanimously and Council affirmed that vote to approve that change,” states Davies.
“Smithfield purchased that, it had been on the market for quite some time. Hy-Vee had purchased it and owned it last. Their market changed and their corporate plans changed, so they did not put in a new grocery store there. I think we were all trying to get a retail space in there, but that environment changed as well,” Mayor Davies adds.
According to a Warren County Property Transfers report from December, Smithfield purchased the property from Hy-Vee for $1.6 million.
