Food City Adding Knoxville Sites
Posted on: Thursday, 10 November 2005, 00:00 CST
By Cynthia Yeldell, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.
Nov. 9--Food City is moving into a former Bi-Lo building in West Knoxville and continues to expand locally, with a store planned for Millertown Pike and today's opening of its new Middlebrook Pike location. The grocery store chain said Tuesday that the former Bi-Lo building at Kingston Pike at North Peters Road will be remodeled and "outfitted with an attractive new interior design concept" to accommodate a 46,000-square-foot Food City.
Bi-Lo closed that location in March, shortly before announcing the sale of eight other Knoxville stores to Southern Family Markets, an affiliate of New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. Tom Hembree of Food City said his company is not buying Knoxville's remaining Bi-Lo stores.
Instead, Food City continues to build new locations with pharmacies, self-checkout lanes, bakery/delis, full-service meat and seafood departments, and hot food bars with sit-down cafes. The 43,600-square-foot Middlebrook Pike store and the 48,000-square-foot store that will be built at the intersection of Millertown Pike and Love Creek will have gasoline pumps. Both the Millertown Pike store and the Kingston Pike store are scheduled to open in the spring of 2006. Food City also is slated to open a store in Mechanicsville at Western and Leslie avenues, which is in the Center City Business Neighborhood, a 90-acre area that is being developed with Empowerment Zone funding.
The Mechanicsville development is highly anticipated by city officials because it will create about 175 new jobs in the lower-income community and possibly serve the downtown area. Construction has not yet begun on that location, but officials said earlier this year it would open in spring 2006.
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