King Street Safeway to Close Early Next Year
The new store will be larger, offer more services.
The Safeway supermarket on King Street in West End Alexandria will likely close early next year for redevelopment into a larger store with more amenities. Safeway spokesman Greg Ten Eyck said the store, located at 3526 King St., is awaiting final comments from the city to receive a building permit. The store will close after the final permits have been received, he said. “We don’t expect that happen until sometime in early 2013,” Ten Eyck said. The supermarket will be closed for about a year for remodeling, he said. The pharmacy will remain open, operating out of a mobile unit. “We want to provide uninterrupted service for our pharmacy customers, so we are opening a temporary pharmacy nearby,” Ten Eyck said. The current store is 44,000 …
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Rachel Leonard
11:26 am on Wednesday, December 12, 2012
PS - It will also be two stories. more ›