What: AutoZone store

Where: 1325 S. U.S. Highway 97, north of Fred Meyer

Developer/building owner: Bend-Third LLC, Eugene Dickerhoof of Corvallis, principal partner

Contractor: Dickerhoof Construction

Designer/business owner: AutoZone Inc.

Details: A Corvallis developer is building a new 6,800-square-foot AutoZone parts and accessories store near the Fred Meyer Shopping Center in south Bend. The store is expected to open in July.

The $700,000 building will have a concrete-block skeleton with a stucco exterior and a metal roof, said Darren Dickerhoof, a partner in Bend-Third LLC, the developer and building owner. It will be built to AutoZone specifications, Dickerhoof said, but city planners insisted on upgrades from the normal AutoZone designs.

”It will be considerably nicer than your typical AutoZone,” Dickerhoof said.

As with all of AutoZone’s more than 3,400 stores in the United States and Mexico, the Bend business will be owned directly by the corporation rather than by a local franchisee.

The Memphis, Tenn.-based AutoZone chain is opening more stores per year than any other auto parts chain in the nation, according to the company’s Web site.

The Dickerhoof family of Corvallis, through Bend-Third, will maintain ownership of the building, Darren Dickerhoof said. Their company, Dickerhoof Properties, has developed retail buildings throughout the state, including the new Prineville Center on Combs Flat Road, the home of Prineville’s first Starbucks.

– David Fisher