CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Next week an event is planned to celebrate the reopening of the former Ray’s Food Place, which will host new national-level retailers.

At 9 a.m. Monday, the Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce and the city of Clearlake will host a combination groundbreaking and ribbon cutting at the former Ray's Food Place building at 15930 Dam Road in Clearlake.

City Manager Greg Folsom said the event will mark Tractor Supply Co.’s plans to open at the store.

Medford, Ore.-based C&K Market had owned the store and property since 1995. In the fall of 2016, the company announced plans to shutter the store, which it did later that year.

In the spring of 2017, The Carrington Co., based in Eureka, purchased the store, as Lake County News has reported.

At the Aug. 30 “State of the City” event, Greg Cutler, the company’s regional director of acquisitions, told community members about The Carrington Co.’s purchase of the property and the assistance that it had received from city officials.

Cutler said at that time that the intent is to renovate and redevelop the property to house up to three national-level retailers.

Along with the announcement of Tractor Supply Co.’s plans to locate at the Clearlake location – its first in Lake County – Cutler confirmed to Lake County News that an agreement has been reached with a second retailer.

“I can confirm that Big 5 has also signed a lease for the former Ray's,” Cutler said.

“We're still working on the third and final tenant for about 6,500 square feet,” he said.

Tractor Supply Co., founded in 1938, is based in Brentwood, Tenn. The company Web site reports that it owns and operates more than 1,600 stores in 49 states “supplying basic maintenance products to home, land, pet and animal owners.”

Big 5 Sporting Goods reported that as of Jan. 1, 2017, it had 433 locations across 11 Western states.

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