In its latest Hard Hat Chat blog post about 2016’s commercial construction “highs and lows,” Taylor Johnson client Englewood Construction pointed to big-box expansion as a particularly bright spot in the retail landscape. Case in point: a new 120,000-square-foot Blain’s Farm & Fleet prototype store Englewood recently completed in Romeoville, Ill. The project was the subject of a Q&A in Northern Illinois Real Estate Magazine. Check out the full feature here, and read Hard Hat Chat for additional construction trends and insights.

Built by Englewood Construction, the new Blain’s Farm & Fleet prototype store in Romeoville, Ill., opened in October 2016.