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Kroger plans to build a new $20 million Marketplace on East Dayton Yellow Springs Road in Fairborn, directly next to its existing store that developers will look to fill with another tenant.
The new store is expected to open in August 2016, Fairborn officials said Friday.
Kroger submitted plans to the city Wednesday, the deadline to have it on the May 12 Planning Board agenda.
The new Marketplace will be nearly 135,000 square feet, and feature a clothing department, The Little Clinic, drive-thru pharmacy, a Starbucks, and possibly a jewelry department and in-store bank.
Construction is expected to begin in September or October of this year, said Mike Gebhart, Fairborn’s community development director.
Currently, Kroger employs 200 people at the store. Between 100 and 150 new jobs will be created due to the company’s expansion, Gebhart said. The existing store will remain open until the new Marketplace opens, he said.
“This is another example of continued investment in the city,” Fairborn economic development director Chris Wimsatt said. “What we’re seeing now is new development following new development. I think that’s going to continue.”
The existing store, at 1161 E. Dayton Yellow Springs Road, is just shy of 67,000 square feet and opened in June 1999. Wimsatt said Oberer has had discussions with a number of retail chains that are interested in that space.
The new Marketplace will be built where a retail center attached to Kroger currently exists. The city approved earlier this year Oberer's request to tear that down and build a 6,000-square-foot standalone retail center southwest of the existing Kroger in The Shoppes at Valle Greene area.
The five tenants currently in the 19,600-square-foot retail center are GNC, a nail salon, The UPS Store, a dry cleaners and Cato, a women’s clothing store. There also is vacant, unoccupied space in the center.
The new retail center will have four storefronts. Gebhart previously said Oberer will offer the existing businesses the opportunity to move into the new building.
The original plan was for businesses to move in by August of this year, but Wimsatt said that timeline has likely been pushed back a couple months.
Fairborn officials also said Kroger plans to expand the existing gas station, but those details were not included in the company’s submission to Planning Board.
Kroger and Oberer officials did not return calls seeking comment Friday afternoon.
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