A new Costco store is on track to arrive in southeast Salem as the anchor of a new commercial development.

Salem planning officials are for the proposed Kuebler Gateway Shopping Center on approximately 20 acres wedged between Kuebler Boulevard and Boone Road. Plans call for construction of a 168,550-square-foot building for Costco Wholesale, along with a retail fueling station with up to 30 pumps and at least four retail shell buildings with a combined floor area of roughly 21,000 square feet. A pair of existing medical office buildings built in 2013 would be left in place on the property’s southwest corner.

Developers aim to provide at least 1,013 motor vehicle parking spaces.

Property ownership is shared by PacTrust and M&T Partners. The developer is Pacific Realty Associates, a Portland firm that provides site selection, design, construction, leasing and property management services.

The developer is working with Seattle-based architecture firm MG2 to carry out site planning. MG2 has over the past 30 years, and even has a warehouse prototype that is constantly updated to meet the company’s needs.

Robinson Construction of Hillsboro will serve as the general contractor.

According to the applicants, project plans represent the culmination of over 12 years of planning. The initial comprehensive plan and zoning change application was submitted in 2006. Most recently, the developers inked a 2015 improvement agreement with the city that saw Kuebler Boulevard widened from Commercial Street to Interstate 5.

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