Downtown is set to have a hardware store once again.

“We wanted to share some good news,” said Bruce Lundgren, property manager and partner in the Chaska Brickyard Shopping Center.

Lundgren reports that Security Development Company signed a lease with Arrow Ace Hardware last week. They will take over the space formerly occupied by Snyder’s Drug Store to the east of Cooper’s County Market.

Lundgren said that Arrow Ace Hardware is a chain of 11 hardware stores based in St. Peter. “The closest one is in Shakopee,” he noted.

Arrow Ace Hardware is looking opening mid-July in the 11,000 square foot space.

Lundgren said that the shopping center’s façade will be remodeled over the next six weeks. All but the Cooper’s County Market space will be done. Cooper’s will eventually get its own remodel.

“Construction starts Thursday,” said Lundgren.

Chaska currently has one mega-hardware store, Home Depot, in Chaska Commons. The city’s last downtown hardware store, Chaska Building Center off of Highway 212, closed in May 2008. Recently announced redevelopment plans for the now dormant 12-acre site called for a 10,000-square-feet hardware store.

-Mollee Francisco, staff writer