Mum’s still the word from Meijer Inc. on new Detroit locations.

We’ve reported here at Crain’s in the last year that the Walker-based retailer is considering a new store along Jefferson Avenue between I-375 and Grosse Pointe Park, as well as ongoing discussions between Meijer and Olympia Development of Michigan for a new store in the District Detroit project.

So what’s the status on the possible third and/or fourth Detroit locations?

“We are talking to real estate owners and developers in communities throughout the Midwest every single day,” said Frank Guglielmi, senior director for communications for Meijer.

“Our real estate team, that’s what they do. They are constantly talking to folks and looking at potential opportunities, and conversations are ongoing all the time throughout the Midwest.”

So … basically, no update, nothing to announce on that front.

But the company did announce today an $80 million campaign to renovate a dozen Southeast Michigan stores, making it as good a time as any to follow up with the retailer on its plans for new openings in Detroit.

The company opened its store in the Gateway Marketplace development at Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue in 2013 to much fanfare as the first Meijer in the city. The supercenter represented $20 million of the $72 million development by Southfield-based Redico LLC.

Its second location opened in June at the site of the former Redford High School at Grand River Avenue and McNichols Road on the city’s northwest side.

Everything we have heard points to a store in the new arena district being a smaller footprint than its normal stores, the smallest of which are about 100,000 square feet.

The company has been exploring conceptual plans for smaller stores to fit in dense urban areas, Olympia Development officials and some of my real estate sources have said.

Meijer’s two stores in Detroit are each 190,000 square feet.