ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Home Depot is continuing to make progress in order to begin construction on their proposed store where the Fashion Square Mall is. The hardware store proposed the first steps of the construction process to the Albemarle County Architectural Board. 

Valerie Long, from Williams Mullen, represented Home Depot in Monday's ARB meeting and presented a plan to take down what used to be the Sears building portion of the mall and build a temporary wall of the mall to kickstart the construction of the new Home Depot. 

“Because of the need to remove part of the mall to create the space for the new store, we have to build a new wall on the end of the mall there on the northern end,” Long said. 

The ARB approved the wall as designed, with three conditions, by a vote of three to one.

Now what's next is that the proposal needs to get approval from the County Board of Supervisors, which is scheduled to be proposed later this month. 

Long also said the final site plan is still under review and she says it's expected to be under review, but the approval of this amendment would allow the new Home Depot to be built sooner. 

Long added that the goal would be to start demolition of the mall wall project and vertical construction of the new Home Depot store in August of this year.