HARLINGEN — Discount optical provider America’s Best Contacts and Eyeglasses has its sights set on Harlingen Corners.
Construction at the store, located next to Supercuts across the parking lots from Bed, Bath and Beyond, will be finished by the middle of the month, workers at the store said yesterday.
They said they expected the store to open before the month’s end.
The construction project is called an interior fit-out, because the shell of the building already existed. The project is estimated to cost $150,000, according to documents filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
Workers at the site yesterday were completing the installation of interior partitions, a new ceiling, lighting, plumbing and installing electrical wiring in the building.
The new optical store is the latest business to locate at Harlingen Corners. A Five Below discount store is expected to open at the shopping complex in late summer.
America’s Best provides eye exams, glasses and contacts and has 450 stores nationwide.
Among its 53 Texas locations are stores located in Brownsville and Mission.
Its parent company, National Vision Inc., headquartered in the Atlanta area, is the nation’s fourth-largest optical retailer. Its other subsidiary companies include The Vision Center, Eyeglass World, Vista Optical and Optical Center.
In 2013, National Vision had gross sales of $718 million.
The private equity firm KKR and Co. L.P. acquired National Vision from Berkshire Partners in 2014 for a reported price of $1 billion.
Calls seeking comment from a National Vision spokesperson were not returned.
