High River's Peavey Mart is a couple of weeks from opening its brand new location along 12th Avenue.

Store Manager Randy Doran says they're able to expand what they do with the bigger space in the new building.

"We're over-crowded here and we're getting more merchandise all the time and our yard was way too small and I want to be able to handle fenceposts and things so we need a lot more space," Doran says. "The new store's going to be built a little over double over the space of this (current) store, and my yard's going to be much bigger so I'll be able to handle fenceposts and all the kinds of stuff I couldn't handle before."

High River Peavey Mart's current location

He expects to hire six-to-ten more people once the store opens and see if more are needed after that.

Doran says they've run into a couple of hiccups along the way and so they won't be open as soon as they'd planned, but expects it'll be open in a couple of weeks.