POST FALLS — Super 1 Foods Vice President Randy McIntire smiled when asked if he had come full circle by opening a new store in Post Falls. 

“Nobody ever thought it would come to this, the size of the business, but it’s been really nice,” he said.

The first store that McIntire managed was Super 1’s Post Falls location at 805 E. Polston. The new one at the intersection of Highway 41 and Prairie Avenue, he said, will be “twice as big.” 

Officials broke ground Thursday on the new 54,000-square-foot Super 1 store. It could be open by July 2027. 

McIntire, joined for the brief ceremony by his father, Ron McIntire, said many of the departments will be much larger than their counterparts at the other Post Falls location. 

The new location will mark the McIntires' 17th store and their ninth in Idaho. It will be their first new store since they opened the Oldtown location in 2020. They built the first one in Hayden in 1970. 

The store will feature several customer amenity upgrades, such as electronic price tags and more self-checkout lanes. McIntire said they are planning technology upgrades for employee quality of life. 

McIntire said the new building will cost about $12 million to construct, and the store will employ about 110 people.

Mayor Randy Westlund was excited about Super 1's addition to the area. 

“This is such a fantastic location and I’m really appreciative of all of the investments in Post Falls from such a great company,” Westlund said. “This corridor is nearly coming alive.” 

Eric Faust, operations manager for the Spokane branch of Swinerton Construction, lives a short distance from the new store site. He said the store will be a great addition to the community.

“This is going to be my grocery store with my family, the 25-cent ice cream cones, the kids are all over them already,” he said.