Peavey Mart coming to Steinbach

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Steinbach’s retail sector will expand next year with the construction of a Peavey Mart store along Highway 52 West.

Peavey Mart will open a 30,000-square-foot store and greenhouse in the spring of 2024, the company announced Friday on Facebook.

“It’s a perfect market for us,” Jeff Crump, Peavey Mart’s senior vice-president of store operations, said in a phone interview. “We thrive in small ag markets.”

Schinkel Properties will build and lease the store.

“We are thrilled to have Peavey Mart as a tenant in our new development, and we are confident that their presence will be a great addition to the community,” Bob Schinkel, owner of Schinkel Properties, said.

Peavey Mart is a Canadian-owned farm and ranch retailer that operates 97 stores across Canada, including two in Winnipeg and one in Brandon.

Headquartered in Red Deer, Alta., Peavey Mart has four distribution centres, two in Alberta and two in Ontario.

Crump said the Steinbach store is part of a larger plan to expand the company’s presence in the prairie provinces. Peavey Mart opened two new stores last year, one in British Columbia and one in Nova Scotia.

Crump said Peavey Mart is different from big-box home improvement stores like Home Depot, Rona, and Lowe’s.

“It’s really a retailer focused on our farm and ranch customers,” he said.

The Steinbach store will carry animal care and feed products, farm equipment, agricultural and automotive products, hand and power tools, housewares, lawn and garden items, and western work apparel and footwear.

Crump said the Steinbach store is expected to create 18 to 25 jobs.

Peavey Mart was founded as National Farmway in 1967. After a decade as a subsidiary of a U.S. company, it returned to Canadian ownership in 1984.