Photo by Deb Gau Excavation work is underway this week at the former Quist Moving & Storage location at East Main Street and Boyer Drive in Marshall.
MARSHALL — A busy corner of Marshall Street has been looking a lot different lately.
Excavators were seen operating this week on property formerly owned by Quist Moving and Storage, at the corner of East Main Street and Boyer Drive.
Details of the construction project were not released this week, but the Marshall Economic Development Agency posted on social media that the land will become a Les Schwab Tire Center.
A call to a representative for CenterPoint Development, the company developing the property, was not returned as of Friday. However, Todd Quist of Quist Moving and Storage confirmed that the company sold the East Main Street property in 2023. Quist Moving and Storage has since relocated to a new location on Minnesota Highway 23.
Quist said his father and grandfather started Quist Moving & Storage in Pipestone in 1969. The company now has locations in Fairmont and Marshall, and Quist said its storefront on East Main Street in Marshall has been there for more than 30 years.
Quist said the decision to sell the property was partly a matter of space.
“The building was a bit small for us.” “When they received an offer on this property, they saw an opportunity to expand their business in a new location,” Quist said.
Quist Moving and Storage just moved to a new facility on Highway 23 this spring, he said.
Les Schwab Tire Centers was founded in Oregon in 1952. The company offers products and services for tires, brakes, wheels, alignments, batteries, shocks and struts.
Currently, the closest Les Schwab Tire Center stores to Marshall are in Sioux Falls and Watertown, South Dakota, according to the company’s website.
