Kroger wants the West Chester senior center for new marketplace

Kroger wants to build a giant new marketplace at Tylersville and Cox roads and has offered to pay West Chester Twp. $1.8 million for the senior center to accomplish the redevelopment.

West Chester Plaza owners Regency Centers were the only ones to submit a proposal for the West Chester Activity Center. The Activity Center acquisition would allow for a new 95,545-square-foot Kroger, and the grocery giant and retail center owners have even bigger plans.

“We have identified a unique opportunity to work with an adjacent property owner, Chesterwood Village, on modification to our proposed site plan that would allow us to increase the size of the new Kroger to a 117,166 +/- sq. ft Kroger Marketplace,” Ryan Ertel of Regency Centers wrote in the proposal. “It has been Kroger’s desire for many years to convert the existing (nearby) store to a Marketplace.”

The redeveloped site would include a Kroger fuel center and 15,000 to 25,000 square feet of new retail spaces for “existing and new to market retail, service and restaurant operators.” The new Kroger would employ about 310 associates, according to Ertel.

The township put out a request for proposals a month ago, setting the minimum price at $1.7 million.

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