Morrisons to Tesco Store Conversion, Blackpool Road, Preston
A full supermarket conversion of the former Morrisons store near Deepdale Retail Park to Tesco standards, delivered to a compressed programme so the store could reopen under its new brand as quickly as possible.
- Client
- National grocery retailer
- Location
- Blackpool Road, Preston, Lancashire
- Project value
- Confidential
- Our role
- Project Manager & Principal Contractor
- Sector
- Retail / Supermarket
- Status
- Conversion following September 2023 closure
Project overview
Following Morrisons' sale of its Blackpool Road store near Deepdale Retail Park to Tesco, the site closed early in September 2023 so that conversion works could begin immediately. The programme was fixed by a committed reopening date, leaving no float in the sequence.
Norvek acted as project manager and Principal Contractor, taking single-point responsibility for the strip-out of the outgoing brand and the structural and partition alterations needed to reconfigure the sales floor and back-of-house areas.
Mechanical, electrical and sprinkler services were reconfigured in full to the incoming retailer's technical standards, coordinated closely with refrigeration and specialist shopfitting packages so trades could work concurrently without compromising safety or quality.
Works completed with shopfitting, decoration, internal and external signage and rebranding. Careful site logistics on a busy retail park and main road frontage kept the surrounding units and highway operating normally throughout.
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