Wayne Avenue Kroger sold for $2.3 million

Purchasing LLC linked to a Springdale supermarket
The Kroger store at 1555 Wayne Ave., Dayton. Montgomery County image.

The Kroger store at 1555 Wayne Ave., Dayton. Montgomery County image.

The Kroger store property on Wayne Avenue in Dayton has a new owner.

OCV Dayton LLC sold the store property at 1555 Wayne to Wayne Avenue Investments LLC for $2.33 million in late February, according to recent Montgomery County property records.

The seller, OCV Dayton, is a limited liability company with a Petaluma, Calif. mailing address. The purchasing limited liability company was incorporated in Cincinnati in November.

The purchasing LLC has a tax mailing address of Kemper Road in Springdale, the site of Mi Tierra Supermarket.

Kroger spokeswoman Jenifer Moore said Kroger will continue to lease the site.

Asked about the new owner’s ties to a Springdale market, Moore said: “That is just a coincidence. We are committed to serving the community at our Wayne Avenue location.”

When the Dayton store site was last sold in 2021, for $1.75 million, a Kroger spokeswoman said the transaction was an ownership change and Kroger continued to lease the building.

The 26,806-square-foot store building was built in 1959. The sale included nearly three acres zoned for supermarket use.

In August 2020, the property of a Kroger store on Smithville Avenue sold for more than $6 million.

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