{"id":11649,"date":"2025-03-15T06:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T14:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/?p=11649"},"modified":"2025-03-15T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T16:30:46","slug":"costco-brentwood-ca-grand-opening-march-7th-2025-after-218-days-of-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/2025\/03\/15\/costco-brentwood-ca-grand-opening-march-7th-2025-after-218-days-of-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Brentwood, CA &#8211; Grand Opening March 7th 2025 after 218 days of Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">After 218 days of construction and almost another year of legal wrangling before that, the Brentwood Costco had its grand opening on March 7th, 2025. Completed about a month before that was the Sand Creek extension for CA State route 4 that allows access to the Costco from two exits. The extension will hopefully relieve some of the congestion Lone Tree Way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVBYD5a8B1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11651 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-001.jpg\" alt=\"Grand Opening ribbon cutting ceremony - March 7th, 2025 Brentwood, CA Costco\" width=\"999\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-001.jpg 999w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-001-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-001-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The ribbon cutting ceremony took place just moments before the hundreds of shoppers were allowed in the store at 7:38 AM March 7th, 2025.<br \/>\nI have created a short video showing the work from grading the land to grand opening &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TVBYD5a8B1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costco Brentwood Construction &#8211; Grand Opening<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11652 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-002.jpg\" alt=\"August 2024 - the grading work on site which will become Brentwood's Costco continues.\" width=\"1063\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-002.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-002-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-002-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-002-768x474.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1063px) 100vw, 1063px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Two hundred and fourteen days before the grand opening there was just a large graded hole in the ground where the Costco would be built.<br \/>\nBefore construction began, I did some research into how long it took to build a Costco. I saw several people claiming it would take about 100 days because Costco&#8217;s were built using tilt-up construction. THAT is WRONG.<br \/>\nI saw every phase of the construction. There was NO tilt up construction. The walls were built with either cinder blocks, or insulation with aluminum siding on it. The only wall that was concrete poured was the loading dock wall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11653 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-003.jpg\" alt=\"Costco Brentwood, CA construction with work on the roof.\" width=\"999\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-003.jpg 999w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-003-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-003-768x523.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The shell of the roof has been completed as workers ad insulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11654 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-004.jpg\" alt=\"Blue helicopter lifts cooling units to roof of Costco - Brentwood, CA\" width=\"999\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-004.jpg 999w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-004-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-004-768x509.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It turns out the fastest and most effective way to lift multiple cooling units to the roof of a Costco is by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11655 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-005.jpg\" alt=\"Lights illuminate the brand new 32 pump Costco gas station - Brentwood, CA.\" width=\"999\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-005.jpg 999w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-005-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-005-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The 32 pump gas station opened March 6th, 2025 one day before the Grand Opening. Costco membership is required to purchase gas there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11656 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-006.jpg\" alt=\"Shoppers waiting for Costco grand opening specials line up the night before the 7:30 AM opening - Brentwood Costco\" width=\"999\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-006.jpg 999w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-006-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ksimonian.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Costco-Brentwood-Grand-Opening-006-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The line for the alcohol specials started at 10:30 AM Thursday March 6th, twenty-one hours before the Grand opening. By 8:30 PM on the 6th the line had about 30 people in it. At 6:30 AM the day of the grand opening, there were hundreds in the line. The line for regular shoppers started 3.5 hours before the grand opening at 4AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 218 days of construction and almost another year of legal wrangling before that, the Brentwood Costco had its grand opening on March 7th, 2025. Completed about a month before that was the Sand Creek extension for CA State route 4 that allows access to the Costco from two exits. 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