The Super 1 Foods outlet in Hayden, Idaho, one of nine supermarkets operated by Manito Super 1 Foods Inc., of Spokane, is undergoing a $3 million remodel, says Randy McIntire, a manager there.

Work on improvements at the 55,000-square-foot supermarket, located at 204 W. Hayden, will include new flooring, lighting, and upgrades for the perimeter departments, such as the meat and produce departments, McIntire says.

Refrigerated display areas and freezers also will be upgraded and enlarged, he says. In addition, about 2,000 square feet of floor space in the store will be reconfigured for a new organic foods department.

The remodel also will include a new entryway that will tie the supermarket visually to newer structures in the retail center, says Mike Winger vice president of store development for URM Stores Inc., a Spokane-based grocery distributor that's providing design services for the project.

Citadel Construction Inc., of Spokane, is the contractor on the project, and Nystrom Olson Collins Inc., of Spokane, designed it. The project is expected to be completed in April.

Manito Super 1 operates nine stores, four of which are in Kootenai County. The Hayden outlet is the third of those to be remodeled in the last few years, Winger says. One remodel was completed last May at the Post Falls outlet, and another was completed two years ago at the Coeur d'Alene store, he says.

The company opened Kootenai County's other Super 1 Foods outlet in Rathdrum in 2000, McIntire says.

The Hayden store has about 100 employees and will remain at that staffing level for the time being, he says.

Winger says the Hayden project is at least the third major remodel to be done at that store since it opened in 1973.

"They are continually reinvesting and upgrading their stores," he says.

Manito Super 1 Foods' other stores are in Evergreen, Whitefish, Columbia Falls, Stevensville, and Hamilton, Mont.