The outlet store will sell day-old bread and other Schwebel’s bakery products, including snack cakes, Schwebel said. The 4.5-acre property and 27,000-square-foot building sold Monday for $320,000 to a company affiliated with Schwebel’s, according to Montgomery County property records.
The facility has been vacant since December 2012, when Hostess Brands shut down the outlet store as part of a bankruptcy filing.
“We’re thrilled this property will be re-utilized, and that it will function in a like and similar manner,” Riverside City Manager Bryan Chodkowski said. “I’m looking forward to welcoming them to town.”
Lynn Domescik, membership director/event coordinator for the Riverside Area Chamber of Commerce, said that, “As grocery and gas prices rise, everyone in the area will be looking to the great bargains” at the new outlet bakery store. “It’s nice to know that we will have the opportunity of super savings and discounted prices on items such as breads, buns, cereals, cookies, crackers, and breakfast pastries here in the community.”
The Youngstown-based Schwebel’s is a fourth-generation family-owned business that was founded in 1906.
The last time the Brandt Pike location was buzzing with retail activity was Nov. 15, 2012, when customers descended on the store to scoop up armloads of Twinkies, Ho-Hos and Ding Dongs during the hours after an announcement that Hostess was liquidating its inventory. The company’s failure ended up costing 18,500 people their jobs nationwide.
In the Dayton area, a distribution center that Hostess leased in Huber Heights closed along with the outlet store, although company officials were not able to say how many local employees lost their jobs.
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