EAST LANSING - Construction is underway on the Costco Wholesale project in East Lansing.

Road work started May 8 on Park Lake Road and Saginaw Street. Motorists can expect isolated lane closures in the area through September as infrastructure and utility improvements are made to accommodate the $30-million project, according to the city’s website.

The retail warehouse will occupy 26 acres at 5800 Park Lake Road on the site of the former Four Winds Golf Course.

The 157,000 square-foot building will include a tire center and employ roughly 150 people. A gas station with 24 pumps will also be built near the corner of Park Lake Road and Saginaw Street. Its parking lot will have 751 spaces.

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The project is scheduled to be complete by early October, according to a bid invitation document sent out in February by Seattle-based Jackson Dean Construction, the general contractor on the project.

The soil on the site is soft. To build on the property, developers will have to replace what's there with better soil. That work is underway, said Jerry Pollock, project manager for Jackson Dean Construction.

Alexander Alusheff is a reporter for the Lansing State Journal. Contact him at (517) 388-5973 or aalusheff@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexalusheff.