Dashs Kenmore Avenue store closing Sunday for future remodeling

Dashs Markets is closing its supermarket on Kenmore Avenue as of Sunday to prepare the former Budweys grocery store for extensive renovations, owner Joe Dash said Monday.

However, work at the Kenmore Avenue store wont begin for some time as Dashs executives weigh their options for the project and await final design details.

Dash said he hopes remodeling will begin in the summer or early fall, and he expects to open the renovated store by spring 2015 following six or seven months of construction.

The store needs a major renovation to do what we do, Dash said.

The Kenmore Avenue Dashs will be open through Saturday and signs there advertise a storewide remodeling sale.

Dash said closing the store now, months before construction begins, gives Dashs the chance to place its nearly 100 employees in positions at its four other area locations.

A majority of employees at the 416 Kenmore Ave. store agreed to transfer, and Dashs wouldnt have been able to accommodate them if the company had waited until construction began to close the store, Dash said.

He said the company also held off on doing its normal level of new hiring in recent weeks to further ensure the Kenmore Avenue employees could find positions elsewhere in the chain.

Dashs has between 550 and 575 employees in all, said Mark Mahoney, executive vice president and director of operations.

The chain agreed in November to buy the former Kenmore Avenue Budweys after Frank Budwey decided to retire from the supermarket business.

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Dashs Kenmore Avenue store closing Sunday for future remodeling