Anytime you get a lot of cars and people in the area, you are going to have people that need to do some grocery shopping. “It is a busy spot. Whenever we were building the store here, we had all kinds of foot traffic and people coming up and checking us out and going to some of the other stores in the area as well.

This will leave yet another vacancy and empty space in town- and one located right in front of the closed Sears store at the Battlefield Mall.Īs for those storefronts lucky enough to get new tenants, management of those places are ready for business in these changing times.

That’s because the current stores, located on Battlefield, will close after the new ones open. Construction workers are remodeling the structure for new Hobby Lobby and Mardel stores. This project is a gain for Glenstone Avenue, but a loss for Battlefield Road.

Glenstone had been the city’s sole remaining K-mart store until it closed in 2017. Up the street, one of the city’s biggest empty storefronts isn’t staying that way for long. Tiegs said, “We were sad that they closed shop because they had all that here. Nobody else had what they had in the terms of quality of meat or the produce.” That Colorado-based company closed most of its locations in 2020 after its main investor, Kroger, pulled out of the partnership. Glenstone had been home to another natural food chain, Lucky’s Market. We were counting down the months and then the days.” Richard Tiegs, a customer, said, “We were thrilled.

So, that is one of the reasons we are here is because people wanted us to be here. Natural Grocers, a retailer new to the Springfield market, has opened its doors on the city’s south side.īrian Phillips, Director of Store Operations explained, “That’s what we have in Springfield…we have a lot of folks here that have been shopping natural and organic foods whether it be farmers markets or their own gardens or other stores for decades. But, what you find on the shelves inside naturally looks a little familiar. – There is a new name on the sign outside.

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