Plans show the store at East Stroop currently having 58,960 square feet, but growing to 72,903 square feet in the expansion with “Kroger to take over existing CVS space.”
The shopping center, which is across Shroyer Road from Town & Country Shopping Center near the heart of Kettering, is owned by Jack W. Eichelberger Trust, Montgomery County land records state.
Credit: STAFF
Credit: STAFF
The Eichelberger property trustee, attorney Gary Froelich, deferred questions Thursday to the Cincinnati-based national retailer, noting “I should allow Kroger to respond.”
A Kroger spokeswoman confirmed the plans, but declined to address questions about the project.
“We are not ready to share plans on when construction will begin as timelines shift due to weather impacts and other factors,” Corporate Affairs Manager Jenifer Moore said in an email.
“Kroger has been a longtime Kettering business, and this expansion further proves their investment in our community as they continue to accommodate customers’ needs and shopping experience,” City Manager Matt Greeson said in an email.
The expansion would be a multi-phased project to include work in several different areas of the store and last about a year, according to the plans.
The deli, bakery, grocery freezer, dairy cases, the pharmacy and Starbucks are all among the sections of the store listed in the phases, records show. A new grocery pick-up door is also included in the plans.
Kroger last year leased out-lot space that housed the former Friendly’s restaurant and the former Liberty Savings Bank, officials said. Those sites were demolished earlier this year for additional Kroger parking, city officials said.
The Kroger store was remodeled into a Fresh Fare in 2009. The city widened sidewalks and installed decorative street lights and retaining walls on Stroop in 2014.
Records show shopping center parcel is 9.5 acres.
Kroger also has a Kettering store at 2115 E. Dorothy Lane, three miles to the northeast. The expansion for the Stroop site follows other Dayton-area changes by the company.
In early 2023, Kroger opened a new Marketplace in Miamisburg. The new 123,722-square-foot Kroger Marketplace at 255 N. Heincke Road created 110 new jobs and maintained 150 employees who transferred from the former site, the company said. It replaced a 68,860-square-foot store a block away that opened in 1995.
In March, Kroger closed a Dayton store and another in Riverside as it opened a new, larger location in the suburb that is home to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.
The company shuttered its Pinewood Plaza business on South Smithville Road and a store on Spinning Road before launching the new Riverside location at the intersection of Woodman Drive and Burkhardt Road.
That $23 million store is a 100,349-square-foot facility housing about 160 jobs, including those who worked at the former stores in Dayton and Riverside, the company said. It includes a $1.6 million fuel center and a Starbucks.
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